{"id":3176,"date":"2026-01-21T20:00:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2026-01-21T20:00:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T01:00:34","slug":"citizens-united-paved-the-way-for-trumps-corporate-grift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=3176","title":{"rendered":"Citizen\u2019s United Paved the Way for Trump\u2019s Corporate Grift"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Sixteen years ago, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in <em>Citizens United<\/em> that allows corporations to flood our elections with unlimited amounts of money.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lisa Gilbert and Robert Weissman, co-presidents of Public Citizen<\/strong>, issued the following statement in response:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSixteen years ago, <em>Citizens United<\/em> unleashed a torrent of corporate spending that has directly enabled the cozy and self-serving relationships corporations and billionaires have been able to secure with Trump and other politicians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2024, the already horrifying amount of money went on steroids, as we witnessed the largest direct corporate spending on elections ever. Unprecedented spending by crypto companies drove election outcomes and completely reshaped Congressional policy debates, as politicians caved to crypto demands rather than face an onslaught of industry spending in the next election. Predictably, the crypto industry\u2019s shattering of norms made it inevitable that other industries would follow suit. Now Big Tech companies are signaling their intent to use crypto\u2019s playbook to drive state and federal election results and prevent regulation of dangerous new AI technologies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll Americans suffer and our democracy withers when corporations and the super rich have more of a say in elections than regular voters do. It\u2019s not only that corporations and the super rich are able to block overwhelmingly popular policies \u2013 meaningful cuts to drug prices, raising the minimum wage, making corporations pay their fair share in taxes, cracking down on polluters and much more \u2013 that would make our country more just, healthier and more sustainable. It\u2019s also that deep frustration with a failed political system paves the way for demagogues like Donald Trump to seize power.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA constitutional amendment to overturn this terrible decision is 16 years overdue.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sixteen years ago, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in Citizens United that allows corporations to flood our elections with unlimited amounts of money. Lisa Gilbert and Robert Weissman, co-presidents of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response: \u201cSixteen years ago, Citizens United unleashed a torrent of corporate spending that has directly enabled the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-3176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}