• Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    How very ridiculous, now watch how the feds will bend over backwards to keep Citizens United and corporate cash; it’s been a windfall for our poor beleaguered representatives who just need money even though they already make more than the vast majority of their constituents.

    Good job, Hawaii, thank you! (will the governor even sign? let’s watch)

    • Canaconda@lemmy.caOP
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      2 days ago

      (will the governor even sign? let’s watch)

      Hard to say. A brief look at Josh Green indicates to me he’s a true public servant being Democrat and having spent 2 decades as a physician.

      • KneeTitts@lemmy.world
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        1 day ago

        will the governor even sign?

        And, how long till the corporations filthy lawyers find 20 loop holes to get around it?

        • Canaconda@lemmy.caOP
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          1 day ago

          Couple things.

          When a corporation acts beyond the powers its state has granted, the act is ultra vires: outside the entity’s authority and void as a matter of law. The doctrine is older than the country.

          So basically loopholes aren’t a free pass if the effective outcome is ultra vires than the action will be void by law.

          The ones that do work would effectively be zero day exploits that the state legislature could patch. I would also expect state legislatures to uncover some of these loopholes during the process and preemptively amend their bills to prevent them.

          • InputZero@lemmy.world
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            1 day ago

            Loopholes are a free pass when the judicial branch won’t enforce the laws that stop it. All of that is great when everyone is acting in good faith, except the government doesn’t act in good faith anymore.

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              1 day ago

              Evil wins when good men do nothing.

              SCOTUS/Judicial branch would not be the ones the ones enforcing the laws the states would.