So How Do WE Overturn The Supreme Court Ruling on Coporate.......

[rsmith6621]

.......allowed anonymous contributions to political campaign as it appears contributions are extremely sided for Republican/Tea Party candidates.......

.....How do us citizen overturn this decision..... Corporations are not constitutionally allowed a vote or influence of any type.

[Motown_Johnny]

1. Constitutional Amendment or another SCOTUS decision that overturns the previous decision

Not much else we can do that I am aware of.

[4 t 4]

18. So if a cooperation is a person

I know of a cooperation that will be running for senate, does that make sense that a cooperation can run for senate as a person ? Sorry to say but I think The Supreme Court have really lost it. How in the world is a corporation a "person" that is just crazy talk and it's The Supreme Court. wtf

[liberalmuse]

2. We wait until those fuckers croak and our kids are in charge.

I have lost all faith in my generation (barring the countercultural hippies - you guys done good).

[spanone]

3. as soon as the election is over...it will disappear from the radar screen for another 2 years

[yourout]

4. The only way I see fixing it is a Constitutional Amendment stating "Corporations are not people ...

and not protected under the 1st Amendment".

[Occulus]

17. You could simply have an Amendment placing "natural" immediately prior to the word "person",

or you could get more elaborate. I'm for a more elaborate wording because lawyers can be snakes.

"For the purposes of Law and Custom, no Corporation created under the Laws of any of the States shall enjoy the Benefits of Personhood or Citizenship, and shall receive none of the Protections thereof."

Something like that. What I'm after is a relegation of corporate "right" to the status of mere privileges, tightly controllable, revocable at will, and impossible to appeal against.

Corporations do not deserve rights because they are not even alive, much less "people".

[Codeine]

5. Until there's a significant change in the makeup of the SC

there isn't anything we can do. The Right has been tilting at windmills trying to get Roe v. Wade taken down for decades without any luck -- for good or ill these decisions have a certain finality.

[Ruby the Liberal]

6. SCOTUS will likely not hear a challenge. It will need to be an amendment.

[fascisthunter]

7. I Wish to See the right wingers Impeached

unfortunately there are too many corrupted and compromised to do so...

[Xicano]

8. Its going to require a constitutional amendment.

Here's a link to a response I made on that issue a while back.

http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8879277#8879809







Peace,
Xicano

[alfredo]

9. Massive civil disobedience just to get their attention.

Then make demands and promises of more disobedience if they don't listen.

[Tesha]

10. Attack the concept of Corporate Personhood -- that's the scaffolding on which...

...this whole abomination rests, and Corporate Personhood *ISN'T*
written into the Constitution anywhere.

Congress could ban that they any day they chose to. They won't,
of course, and Obama wouldn't sign the ban anyway; they all love
the corporations (and their money) far more than they care about us.

Tesha

[suston96]

11. How do we overturn what the US Supreme Court decides....?

Call a second constitutional convention and reconfigure the powers of the branches.

We do NOT have three "co-equal branches". That is a silly and much overused phrase that has no basis in constitutional dogma. Look at the constitution and see where the power lies.

Hint: The first three words: "We, the People." We, the People, need to reframe the government the Founders left so clearly vulnerable to insidious partisan political machinations driven by moneyed interests - whose first assaults were on the US Supreme Court.

This will take time but you younger folks out there better get busy before what has transpired so far becomes set in stone.

Article V
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose amendments to this Constitution, or, on the application of the legislatures of two thirds of the several states, shall call a convention for proposing amendments, which, in either case, shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this Constitution, when ratified by the legislatures of three fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by the Congress; provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.

Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_to_propose_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution

[depakid]

13. Eventually that's going to happen

And this decision will likely make that day sooner, as it amplifies the dynamics that are leading to the nation's decline toward third world status.

[sofa king]

12. Start exercising our arbitrary right to revoke corporate charters.

Corporations may be people, but we can kill them whenever we wish, for any reason.

I say we start up campaigns to revoke the charters of every corporation that contributes to any candidate in any election in every state.

If it works just once in any one of the 50 states, corporate America will shit its pants and stay out of politics for decades.

[jeanpalmer]

14. Not possible

The corporations control the courts and the government. They have brainwasheded most of the country to understand that an election is about choosing the lesser of two evils. Money controls the system and they have it, we the people don't.

[robinlynne]

15. Well, Bush stole both elections. therefore, none of his choices for Supremes

are actually valid. One should be chosen by Al Gore, and one by what's his name, who didn't feel like getting the votes counted.

[randr]

16. According to the Teagaggers

the second amendment could be employed.