• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    It always seemed to me like some ambitious lawyer could leverage the Citizens United decision to say that if speech is money, and in a democracy everyone should have an equal voice, that wealth inequality is unconstitutional.

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      5 months ago

      this will be right after it is decided that it is, and only is, trained and organized state militias (i.e. present day national guards) with rights granted in the 2nd.