BREAKING: Obama Preparing Executive Order to Change the First Amendment
(Conservative Tribune) – First, President Barack Obama ignored
huge swaths of federal immigration law. Then, he chipped away at the
Second Amendment. Now, he’s aiming even higher — the First Amendment.
President Obama is preparing his latest executive action designed to execute an end-run around Congress: a requirement for companies that do
any business with the government to disclose their “contributions to
groups that spend money to influence campaigns”, according to a New York
Times report.
While the executive action would not prohibit said corporations from
getting government business, it goes to reason that donating to the
“wrong” party or cause might cause those corporations to lose government
business.
Especially given a long line of Supreme Court rulings in which the
campaign spending of for-profit organizations was deemed protected under
the First Amendment, the executive action would again put the
administration in the position of using unilateral action to bypass both
Congress and the Constitution.
Disclosure Act, but it was defeated by Republican opposition, who felt
that the legislation deliberately squelched corporate speech.
“While we will continue to examine additional steps we can take to
reduce the corrosive influence of money in politics, only Congress can
put an end to it,” said Brandi Hoffine, an Obama spokeswoman, said when
reached about the possible executive action.
According to business groups, the real goal of such a measure
wouldn’t be to reduce the influence of money in politics, but to
intimidate corporations into abandoning their freedom of political
speech.
“The real goal of the disclosure proponents is to harass, intimidate
and silence those with whom they disagree,” Blair Latoff Holmes, a
spokeswoman for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, told reporters.
“We continue to believe that one’s political activities should play
no role in whether or not you get or keep a federal contract, and we
encourage the administration to leave this bad idea right where it is.”
The most cherished right of being an American citizen is indeed the
freedom of speech. The idea that a president who cannot work with
Congress has decided to bypass the constitutionally mandated lawmaking
process to chip away at parts of the Constitution is bad enough. The
fact that he would do so on the constitutional right that is the bedrock
of American democracy is absolutely sickening.
