Oh yeah, the similarities are striking.
Via Daily Caller:
South Dakota Democratic Senate hopeful Rick Weiland declared Wednesday that the decision handed down in McCutcheon v. FEC regarding campaign finance laws “may be the worst decision made by any Supreme Court since the Dred Scott case reaffirmed slavery in 1857.”
The McCutcheon decision lifts the aggregate caps on political donations, meaning that donors can give the maximum possible donation to every single candidate for federal office, if they so choose, instead of being required to stop giving once they hit a total sum.
Weiland, the likely Democratic nominee to vie for the Senate seat being vacated by retiring Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson, called the two cases “striking similar in the indefensible power they give one group of human beings over another,” in a statement, published in full by the Argus Leader.
“In Dred Scott, the Court said people with money had the constitutional right to purchase and enslave other human beings. In its line of ‘money has the right to free speech,’ decisions, including today’s McCutcheon decision, the Court is saying that people with unheard of amounts of money have the constitutional right to enslave our democracy,” Weiland said.