• xmunk@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    In theory the FEC could address this by limiting the advertising season and going after candidates or news outlets that violate that limitation.

    In actuality, the media makes far too much money turning it into a horse race.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Yeah, but even if they tried to nowadays, the Tribunal of Six would declare it illegal because Thomas Jefferson himself didn’t have that specific idea back in the late 1700s, so it’s “clearly unconstitutional”. Or, they’d just refer to the recent case where they decided that specialist regulatory agencies aren’t supposed to regulate anything.