President Obama: I’d love a constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United

[kpete]

The president told Vox in an exclusive interview that he wants to see such a drastic change, because he thinks the money-in-politics status quo is so damaging to our political system.

Arguing that "unlimited money" in politics is a key cause of polarization, Obama said, "I would love to see some constitutional process that would allow us to actually regulate campaign spending the way we used to, and maybe even improve it."

These comments — made in the midst of a long, big-picture response to a question on political polarization, during which several issues were discussed — go further than many of the president's past public statements. During a Q&A with Reddit in 2012, the president wrote that "over the long term, I think we need to seriously consider mobilizing a constitutional process to overturn Citizens United." But he's given little attention to the topic during his second term so far.



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http://www.vox.com/2015/2/9/7992489/obama-citizens-united-constitutional-amendment

[yourout]

1. It needs to be "Corporations are not people"....period.

Corporations should not be able to lobby or contribute to campaigns.......period.

[Nye Bevan]

3. It's already illegal for corporations to contribute to campaigns.

And Citizens United was not about lobbying. It was about the constitutional right of corporations and unions to spend money on "issue advertising" that mentions election candidates but is not coordinated with any candidate's campaign.

[gopiscrap]

2. Me too