Democracy For All Amendment Rally in the US

Senator Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. speaks at the Democracy for All Rally before joining debate in the U.S. Senate on a constitutional amendment to limit campaign contributions.

Unique identifier: GP0STOKQB

Type: Image

Shoot date: 08/09/2014

Locations: Capitol Hill, North America, United States of America, Washington, D.C.

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Robert Meyers

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

Containers

Shoot:

Democracy For All Amendment Rally in the US

Boxes representing 3 million petitions gathered by coalition partners in support of a constitutional amendment that would limit donations to political campaigns were displayed at a rally on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Senators and Representatives spoke in support of the amendment being introduced in the United States Senate. The legislative move seeks to circumvent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in the Citizens United and McCutcheon cases which overturned a century of campaign finance law by defining money as speech and unlimited contributions to political campaigns as protected by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. To become law, the amendment would have to be passed by a 2/3rds majority in both houses of Congress and be ratified by 2/3rds of the 50 U.S. States.

Conceptually similar