Summary

House Democrats, led by Rep. Pramila Jayapal, introduced the We the People Amendment to overturn Citizens United, aiming to curb corporate influence in elections.

The constitutional amendment asserts that constitutional rights apply only to individuals, not corporations, and mandates full disclosure of political contributions.

Jayapal cited Elon Musk’s massive campaign spending and subsequent financial gains as proof of the ruling’s harm.

Advocacy groups praised the move, calling it necessary to combat corporate power and dark money in politics, but Republicans have not backed the proposal.

  • WraithGear@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    But its a lie… they had the chance to make this a reality, but they honestly don’t care. They can try to appeal to progressives but it’s too late.

      • Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de
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        7 days ago

        Can you link any speeches of Biden using the bully pulpit to try to get something like that passed? He didn’t. Liberals look for any excuse they can think of to weasel out of helping us. The way they cried that couldn’t even try to forgive student loans because their own parliamentarian supposedly said they couldn’t was such bs.

        I hate Trump with a passion, but Trump is showing the whole world how much power Biden and Obama had but refused to use. Trump is showing everyone that liberals cared more about “norms” than actually helping us

        • tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works
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          7 days ago

          There are a LOT of things Trump & co are doing right now that are beyond presidential power or even downright illegal. Biden and Obama didn’t act like this because they couldn’t. Trump’s acting fast because the people that wrote project 2025 planned it like that. They took a bet that the rest of the country would just watch them, mouth open and do nothing. Seems they were right.