With a bought candidate like Huckabee whose main interest is in satisfying his campaign contributors and establishing a unified American culture, the tech majors will be able to curb competition and dominate the market completely.
Citizens United let rich people buy candidates.
By Jeffrey Toobin May 4, 2016 Citizens United let rich people buy candidates.
Citizens United let rich people buy candidates; now they may be able to purchase office-holders, too.
"American democracy is not about billionaires being able to buy candidates and elections," he said in launching his campaign.
When buying candidates is equated with free speech, there can be no integrity in the way we choose our representatives.
The new case represented, she wrote, "an opportunity to consider whether, in light of the huge sums deployed to buy candidates' allegiance, Citizens United should continue to hold sway".
The case, they wrote, was "an opportunity to consider whether, in light of the huge sums deployed to buy candidates' allegiance, Citizens United should continue to hold sway".
As Jeffrey Toobin predicted a few weeks ago, "Citizens United let rich people buy candidates; now they may be able to purchase office-holders, too".
By taking the case, wrote Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the court would have "an opportunity to consider whether, in light of the huge sums currently deployed to buy candidates' allegiance, Citizens United should continue to hold sway".
