Stop Super-PACs With a Fair Elections Amendment: Jonathan Alter
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Feb. 10 (Bloomberg) -- The 2010 Citizens United v. FederalElection Commission case is fast becoming as explosive as Plessyv. Ferguson (1896) or Roe v. Wade (1973). It took nearly 60years before the Supreme Court reversed the Plessy endorsementof “separate but equal” treatment of the races in Brown v.Board of Education, and opponents of abortion are still waiting(probably in vain) for Roe to go.
Instead of sitting around hoping that one of theconservative justices in the 5-4 Citizens United majority willleave the high court during a Democratic administration,Americans concerned about the degradation of politics should getcracking on a constitutional amendment that does what thefounders envisioned, namely return power to the people.