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'So Corrupt': DOJ Drops Antitrust Case Against Company Represented by Bondi's Former Lobbying Firm
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It is truly astonishing to me that we somehow allow official lobbying of the justice department by firms like this. Foundationally corrupt system.
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
The framers considered this such a basic right that it's right there in the 1st Amendment. And not all lobbying is bad! We only hear about the corrupt shit like this.
Corporations should not be allowed to lobby. With all that money and concentrated effort capitalism can produce, the people will always lose.
I will never understand why people believe corporate influence on the government is so fucking important. It will come naturally, through the people not by lobbyist if you deny their influence
Agreed fully. It never fails to have people materialize who will say that rights that should be given to you but rarely are instead allows for legal fictions to have untold sway over policy.