??? does the supreme court ruling go into effect immediately???

[spanone]

anyone?

[BR_Parkway]

1. I would think so, but don't know for sure

[NoNothing]

2. Yes n/t

[mdmc]

9. yes

[RC]

3. What Supreme Court ruling. I keep reading about one, but nothing is said about it is about..

[sharesunited]

5. It's a corporate personhood / free speech case.

Strikes down the ban against election-purposeful issue advertising sponsored by corporations.

To wit, money equals speech.

Trying to censor messages from any source based on their economic power is unconstitutional.

[spanone]

6. sorry, here's a link

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/21/us/politics/AP-US-Campaign-Finance-Glance.html?_r=1&scp=9&sq=supreme%20court&st=cse

[clear eye]

8. SCOTUS in its ruling on Citizens United v. FEC, just declared corporate political advertising

for all candidates at any time "protected political speech" by corporate "persons". The decision was written by Justice Kennedy. It makes no distinction even if a large % of the corporation is owned by foreign citizens as long as it's headquartered and incorporated in the U.S. It says laws can be written to regulate disclosure, and part of McCain-Feingold has such a requirement for federal elections but the ruling itself doesn't contain any such requirement as of now, so Haliburton could run an ad in October for a gubenatorial candidate under the name "Americans for America", as Dylan Ratigan put it in his program today.

[clear eye]

4. All court decisions go into effect immediately unless there is some event they are contingent upon

like the end of a school term in a child cusody case, or unless it is unreasonable to expect something to be done immediately b/c it takes time. Decisions in lower courts can be delayed while under appeal, but of course that doesn't apply to the Supreme Court. Regarding a ruling overturning a law prohibiting something (say, like alcoholic beverages) once you can't prosecute someone for doing something b/c the law against it is overturned, they are free to do it.

[spanone]

7. thank you all.

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