“Institute for Justice” on The Daily Caller

What’s legal for billionaires to do alone, but illegal for you to do with your neighbors?  Until a federal court decision last Friday, the surprising answer was:  spend freely on political ads. (more)

The Institute for Justice, a libertarian legal group, has posted on its website the results of a D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling: (more)

The five Supreme Court Justices who formed the majority in Citizens United v. FEC—in which the Court held that corporations can spend unlimited amounts of money to call for the election or defeat of candidates—can be forgiven if they view certain corporations that benefited from their ruling as a bunch of ingrates. Since Citizens United was decided in January, a large group of media corporations, including the ones that own the New York Times and Washington Post, is still spending millions of dollars criticizing the decision as disastrous for democracy. In doing so, these corporations have ignored one basic fact: If Citizens United had sanctioned the suppression of speech merely because it is uttered by a corporation, then it would have opened the door for Congress to censor media corporations’ speech. (more)

American democracy is in peril. (more)