Businesses, Unions Freed to Spend Big on Elections

The supreme court freed big businesses and unions to spend their money to persuade congress on elections. This dicision changed a century-long trend. The huge ads on Americans TV are released for the election season. About this decision of the court, Democrats disapproved it against Republicans. And the decision founded for some challenges to the system of campaign finance regulations.
The justices considered two basic things; one is the power of the central government and the other is the concentration of corporate wealth. In the court, there are two opinions; Kennedy's and Stevens'. Kennedy argued the right of the public to be exposed lots of ideas and informantion. On the other hand, Stevens dissented extremely, saying "The court's ruling threatens to undermine the integrity of elected institutions around the nation." The court decided not to accept a 63-year-old lay that included companies and unions can be forbidden from using their money for making ads paying attention to specific candidates. In regard to the cout's decision, Obama predicted that the ruling will bring a "stampede of special interest money in our politics." And he promised to cooperate with Democrats and Republicans to respond mightily to the court's action.
Campaign lawyers and political operatives considered deeply the results of this decision. First of all, it can cause the permission of the union-sponsored political ads. Then, it could make the TV ads competition increse for the public attentions with the candidates' own ads. Big companies, which are sensitive to many shareholders and customers as well as Congress, would be less tended to affix their name to a negative ad calling for a candidate's failure.