{"id":13815,"date":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","date_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/letter-mccutcheon-is-a-win-for-corrupt-policymaking-not-first-amendment\/"},"modified":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T04:14:00","slug":"der-brief-von-mccutcheon-ist-ein-sieg-fur-die-korrupte-politik-nicht-fur-den-ersten-verfassungszusatz","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/de\/articles\/letter-mccutcheon-is-a-win-for-corrupt-policymaking-not-first-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"BRIEF: McCutcheon ist ein Sieg f\u00fcr korrupte Politik, nicht f\u00fcr den Ersten Verfassungszusatz"},"template":"","class_list":["post-13815","article","type-article","status-publish","hentry","article_type-blog-post"],"acf":{"details":{"summary":"","featured_image":null,"article_type":1103,"authors":["{\"site_id\":\"1\",\"post_type\":\"person\",\"post_id\":13641}"],"related_issues":[137,2082],"related_work":false,"location":null},"sidebar":{"helper_enable_sidebar":false,"helper_media_contact":{"heading":"Media Contact","manually_enter_person":false,"person":null,"name":"","role":"","phone":"","email":""},"helper_links_downloads":{"heading":"Links & Downloads","links":null}},"page_layout":[{"acf_fc_layout":"layout_wysiwyg","_acfe_flexible_toggle":null,"component_wysiwyg":{"content":"<p><em><strong>(Eine gek\u00fcrzte Version dieses Beitrags wurde als Leserbrief im Boston Herald ver\u00f6ffentlicht. <a href=\"http:\/\/bostonherald.com\/news_opinion\/opinion\/letters_to_the_editor\/2014\/04\/april_9_letters_to_the_editor\" target=\"_blank\">klicken Sie hier<\/a>.)<\/strong><\/em><\/p><p>Der <em>McCutcheon<\/em> Das Urteil ist ein Sieg f\u00fcr die korrupte Politik, nicht f\u00fcr den Ersten Verfassungszusatz (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/bostonherald.com\/news_opinion\/opinion\/editorials\/2014\/04\/editorial_win_for_1st_amendment\">Gewinn f\u00fcr 1<sup>st<\/sup> \u00c4nderung<\/a><\/em>, Boston Herald April 4). And it's a win for large political campaign contributors, who already command considerable political voice and influence, to obtain even greater say in the political process. The select group of ultra-wealthy individuals (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/overview\/mccutcheon.php\">etwa 600<\/a>), die den H\u00f6chstbetrag von $123.000 beisteuerten, bevor das Gericht die Gesamtgrenzen aufhob, k\u00f6nnen nun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracy21.org\/inside-the-courts\/press-releases-inside-the-courts\/fred-wertheimer-the-consequences-of-todays-disastrous-decision-by-the-supreme-court-majority-in-the-mccutcheon-case\/\">\u00fcber $3,6 Millionen direkt an Bundeskandidaten und Parteien<\/a>. It's the rest of us who will suffer.<\/p><p>The Robert's Court's naive and narrow definition of corruption is to blame. Rarely are elected officials so crass as to engage in outright <em>Gegenleistung<\/em> corruption (i.e. bribery), the only type of corruption the Court sees fit to prevent by campaign finance (never mind the other laws on the books to stop it). Much more dangerous to our modern representative democracy is institutional corruption caused by \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2014\/04\/02\/originalists-making-it-up-again-mccutcheon-and-corruption.html\">unangemessene Abh\u00e4ngigkeit<\/a>,\" the very thing aggregate contribution limits sought to mitigate.<\/p><p>As anyone involved in politics knows, major donors routinely get special access to elected officials, their lobbyists are invited to help write legislation, and they are rewarded with favorable policy and jobs. How opening more doors for big money to flow to candidates' coffers is a win for my First Amendment rights and not simply a win for these donors to exact more government favors is an illusion that ignores the real world of political giving.<\/p>"}}]},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>LETTER: McCutcheon is a win for corrupt policymaking, not First Amendment - Common Cause<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/de\/artikel-2\/der-brief-von-mccutcheon-ist-ein-sieg-fur-die-korrupte-politik-nicht-fur-den-ersten-verfassungszusatz\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LETTER: McCutcheon is a win for corrupt policymaking, not First Amendment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/de\/artikel-2\/der-brief-von-mccutcheon-ist-ein-sieg-fur-die-korrupte-politik-nicht-fur-den-ersten-verfassungszusatz\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Common Cause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/CommonCause\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/CC-Share-Graphic-Main9.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"630\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@CommonCause\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/letter-mccutcheon-is-a-win-for-corrupt-policymaking-not-first-amendment\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.commoncause.org\/articles\/letter-mccutcheon-is-a-win-for-corrupt-policymaking-not-first-amendment\/\",\"name\":\"LETTER: McCutcheon is a win for corrupt policymaking, not First Amendment - 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