{"id":16118,"date":"2014-02-13T16:40:18","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T21:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=16118"},"modified":"2014-02-13T16:40:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T21:40:18","slug":"this-is-how-citizens-united-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2014\/02\/13\/this-is-how-citizens-united-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"This is How Citizens United Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Daily Kos<\/em> has the post <a title=\"The Daily Kos post\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/story\/2014\/02\/13\/1277252\/-This-is-How-Citizens-United-Dies?detail=email\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>This is How Citizens United Dies<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a first of its kind case, federal prosecutors say a Mexican businessman funnelled more than $500,000 into U.S. political races through Super PACs and various shell companies. The alleged financial scheme is the first known instance of a foreign national exploiting the Supreme Court&#8217;s Citizens United decision in order to influence U.S. elections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I just figured out the solution to the immigration problem.\u00a0 If corporations are people too, and if all you have to do is to file some paperwork to form a US corporation, then all the undocumented workers ought to incorporate themselves as US corporations.\u00a0 Why fool with all that INS paperwork and red tape?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Kos has the post This is How Citizens United Dies. In a first of its kind case, federal prosecutors say a Mexican businessman funnelled more than $500,000 into U.S. political races through Super PACs and various shell companies. The alleged financial scheme is the first known instance of a foreign national exploiting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-16118","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16118"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16119,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16118\/revisions\/16119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}