The American Civil Liberties Union has officially sided with Republicans and right-wing judicial activists who are waging a war on democracy in this country.
The ACLU is opposing a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would repeal the Citizens United v. FEC U.S. Supreme Court decision and other court decisions that have opened the floodgates to unlimited amounts of money in electoral politics in this country. What is even worse is that the ACLU is using the same argument against amending the U.S. Constitution to get the undue influence of money out of politics that Republicans and conservatives have used to open the floodgates to big-money politics in the first place:
In a letter submitted Tuesday to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the American Civil Liberties Union expressed opposition to the amendment, saying it would “lead directly to government censorship of political speech and result in a host of unintended consequences that would undermine the goals the amendment has been introduced to advance.”
The ACLU argued the amendment, intended to reign in the spending allowed by those rulings, would “fundamentally break the constitution and endanger civil rights and civil liberties for generations.”The proposed constitutional amendment to get the undue influence of money out of politics would do absolutely nothing to restrict the free speech rights of Americans. What it would do is make it more difficult for wealthy people to buy elections and bring government closer to the people.
The ACLU is defending millionaires and billionaires who hate democracy, are waging a war on democracy in this country, and want to buy elections for themselves and their cronies. I strongly encourage members of the U.S. Senate to vote for the proposed amendment to eliminate the undue influence of money in politics in this country.
