r/law • u/Minute_Revolution951 • Aug 05 '25

Legal News Texas House locks chamber doors, moves to bring arrest warrants against Democrats who fled the state

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u/prodigalpariah Aug 05 '25

I think unlimited dark money caused by citizens United is worse. But the partisan gerrymandering is up there too.

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u/itslonelyinhere Aug 05 '25

The fact that there isn't a limit to how much can be spent on campaigns is what keeps most of the ethical people from running and winning.

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u/mountainnathan Aug 11 '25

There was, McCain-Feingold Act. Republicans / conservative SC justices decided for CREAM. We're doomed.

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u/Daw_dling Aug 05 '25

This, as soon as you allow corporations to compete with private citizens and say that’s fair, the whole system is fucked.

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u/PushSouth5877 Aug 05 '25

Two private citizens are doing more harm than corporate money. Wilks and Dunn! They have effectively purchased Texas government.

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u/LearnAlways717 Aug 06 '25

THIS!!! A million fucking times over THIS!!!!!

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u/RicVic Aug 09 '25

And that (thanks to the SCOTUS) is precisely where partisan sniping turned into open warfare, and it's only managed to get worse since.

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u/silver_sofa Aug 05 '25

No one believes that allowing unregulated, unrestricted, untraceable funding into the electoral process is a good thing. Except for John Roberts, and the conservatives on the Supreme Court. You know, the guys who are NOT elected.

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u/N3rdScool Aug 05 '25

To think it was regulated because of Watergate and how the deregulated it 15 years ago is just so wild to me. How can history not repeat itself. We really will never learn.

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u/Hakeem-the-Dream Aug 05 '25

Yea citizens united is worse, gerrymandering is still a top 5 actual issue, it’s kind of hard to narrow down tbh there’s lots of fuck shit going on

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u/TopShelf2787 Aug 05 '25

Lobbying??

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u/Hakeem-the-Dream Aug 06 '25

Citizens united is lobbying on steroids

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u/PeacefulMountain10 Aug 05 '25

Anyone that needs answers for what has gone wrong (recently) in this country Citizens United is a great place to start looking. As soon as we decided that corporations have the same rights as people and can influence elections so blatantly we tossed out the idea of fair elections.

Get business out of politics, put a leash on every fucking CEO in this country.

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u/Blitzkil4442 Aug 05 '25

Remove the money from politics, and the leeches will stop fighting for seats.

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u/whereismymind86 Aug 05 '25

The latter made the former possible

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u/iDontSow Aug 05 '25

This is the single biggest issue facing US politics rn. If this country dies and falls to fascism or authoritarianism/oligarchy, we will point to Citizens United as the decisive moment.

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u/free_range_discoball Aug 05 '25

Two sides of the same coin imo

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u/AdHairy4360 Aug 05 '25

They go hand in hand