Maybe, after all a majority of the court declined to recuse themselves from the case known colloquially as “John Doe II” brought by Wisconsin Club for Growth, a so-called issue advocacy group which had provided major campaign support to each of their most recent election campaigns. And, of course they ruled in favor of the position supported by Club for Growth. If this not corruption, what is?
In laymen’s terms, the court (or at least 4 of its 7 justices) is bought and paid for by special interests and their “dark money”. And their (equally bought and paid for) colleagues in the State legislature have further loosened what pass for campaign finance laws in the State to ensure the dark money keeps flowing in their direction.
What ever happened to clean government in Wisconsin? Fighting Bob LaFollette has to be spinning in his grave! Is there any hope for our State?
Currently, our best hope is that the U.S. Supreme Court will recognize the problem for a democracy posed by justices who accept a ton of dark money from groups which do not even have to report who their donors are, and then feel free to rule in favor of those same groups when they come before the court.
Will the Court which decided that corporations are people and money is speech help us out here? Is the stench here strong enough to shame and embarrass even them?
Only time will tell.
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