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In reply to the discussion: Hundreds of rabbis accuse Mamdani of fueling antisemitism over 'monsters' comment [View all]lees1975
(7,243 posts)And we had several Democrats, like Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and I believe Sherrod Brown, who pushed the Democrats when we controlled the Congress between 2020 and 2022 to break the filibuster and pack the Supreme Court in order to neutralize the corrupt conservatives and squelch Roberts, and one of the things they pushed for at the top of the list that included strong-arming the Trump trials for insurrection and stealing classified documents was to overturn Citizens United. The other was to overturn Dobbs and restore Roe, and remove the immunity restrictions on arresting and criminally charging the President.
It made sense. We had the power. These pleas were largely ignored, and downplayed, including by President Biden. Once Citizens was overturned, we could have pulled the plug on all PACs, made them dissolve and restricted individual contributions to the fair amount everyone could afford if they chose. And we'd have gotten rid of the undemocratic filibuster.