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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x7536905"In sum, over the course of the past century Congress has demonstrated a recurrent need to regulate corporate participation in candidate elections to “ ‘(p)reserv(e) the integrity of the electoral process, preven(t) corruption, … sustai(n) the active, alert responsibility of the individual citizen,’ ” protect the expressive interests of shareholders, and “ ‘(p)reserv(e) … the individual citizen’s confidence in government.’ ” McConnell , 540 U. S., at 206–207, n. 88 (quoting Bellotti , 435 U. S., at 788–789; first alteration in original). These understandings provided the combined impetus behind the Tillman Act in 1907, see Automobile Workers , 352 U. S., at 570–575, the Taft-Hartley Act in 1947, see WRTL , 551 U. S., at 511 (Souter, J., dissenting), FECA in 1971, see NRWC , 459 U. S., at 209–210, and BCRA in 2002, see McConnell , 540 U. S., at 126–132. Continuously for over 100 years, this line of “(c)ampaign finance reform has been a series of reactions to documented threats to electoral integrity obvious to any voter, posed by large sums of money from corporate or union treasuries.” WRTL , 551 U. S., at 522 (Souter, J., dissenting). Time and again, we have recognized these realities in approving measures that Congress and the States have taken. None of the cases the majority cites is to the contrary. The only thing new about Austin was the dissent, with its stunning failure to appreciate the legitimacy of interests recognized in the name of democratic integrity since the days of the Progressives.
IV
Having explained why this is not an appropriate case in which to revisit Austin and McConnell and why these decisions sit perfectly well with “ First Amendment principles,” ante , at 1, 48, I come at last to the interests that are at stake. The majority recognizes that Austin and McConnell may be defended on anticorruption, antidistortion, and shareholder protection rationales. Ante , at 32–46. It badly errs both in explaining the nature of these rationales, which overlap and complement each other, and in applying them to the case at hand.
The Anticorruption Interest
Undergirding the majority’s approach to the merits is the claim that the only “sufficiently important governmental interest in preventing corruption or the appearance of corruption” is one that is “limited to quid pro quo corruption.” Ante , at 43. This is the same “crabbed view of corruption” that was espoused by Justice Kennedy in McConnell and squarely rejected by the Court in that case. 540 U. S., at 152. While it is true that we have not always spoken about corruption in a clear or consistent voice, the approach taken by the majority cannot be right, in my judgment. It disregards our constitutional history and the fundamental demands of a democratic society."