This Court Has Abandoned the Most Essential Element in American Democracy: Voters

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : Protecting individual people from arbitrary government action does -- or should -- remain the central guiding principle of constitutional jurisprudence today.
54% : Its rationale was that limiting political spending by corporations violated those corporations' First Amendment right to free speech.
46% : The Court applied a construction of the First Amendment that it called "exacting scrutiny," which would allow the state to mandate the identification of donors if there is "a substantial relation between the disclosure requirement and a sufficiently important government interest.
43% : In fact, she complained, the chief justice's opinion "recklessly holds a state regulation facially invalid despite petitioners' failure to show that a substantial proportion of those affected would prefer anonymity, much less that they are objectively burdened by the loss of it."

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