Althouse: Celebrities mentioned in footnote 5 of Roberts's opinion in McCutcheon: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kid Rock, Robert Duvall, "Rocket Man."

April 2, 2014

Celebrities mentioned in footnote 5 of Roberts's opinion in McCutcheon: Jay-Z, Beyonce, Kid Rock, Robert Duvall, "Rocket Man."

Reason why they are mentioned: These individuals, though they can't hand a huge sum of money to a political candidate, have the power to channel huge sums of money to a candidate by appearing at a fundraiser.

(Here's the text of the opinion.)

15 comments:

mccullough said...: If you can bundle enough donations by strong-arming your social network, you can become Ambassador to the United Kingdom.; 4/2/14, 11:13 AM
Anonymous said...: Crazy Street Corner Guy Off His Meds Says:

I wrote "Rocket Man", that Elton Jane is a liar and a thief. I've been in space before, space is real and when I was in space I wrote "Rocket Man". Elton pretends this didn't happen, no one believes me because of his lies, this world is a sewer of lies. I wrote "Rocket Man": I wrote "Rocket Man."; 4/2/14, 11:21 AM
Mike (MJB Wolf) said...: The Roberts Era won't be remembered at all compared to the Beyonce and Jay Z era.; 4/2/14, 11:31 AM
cubanbob said...: Skimmed through the footnotes regarding the various senators remarks on campaign contributions and they all admit to being whores. So the problem according to those who propose limiting campaign funding is that whores can't be expected to not acting like whores so let go after the Johns instead.

As for public figures like Jay Z channeling funds from donors by drawing them to fundraisers just exactly how much money is Jay Z's celebrity status worth? If he was an unknown his value to draw donors to a fundraiser would be minimal at best. However thanks to the tens of millions of dollars spent to create his celebrity status his appearance at a fundraiser has significant value. The funds spent to create his celebrity status value should properly be accounted for as a campaign contribution. Or Jay Z should not be allowed to be used as a draw to get attendance to a fundraiser. I don't see liberals advocating limits on the Koch brothers advocating limits on celebrity endorsements or using celebrities as crowd raisers for fundraisers.; 4/2/14, 12:04 PM
Bob Boyd said...: Yeah, Rocket Man and Major Tom and the like....that's why they don't shoot hippies into space.; 4/2/14, 12:07 PM
Matt Sablan said...: This is one of the many reasons I see no problem with this decision.; 4/2/14, 1:07 PM
Mid-Life Lawyer said...: The hysterical response of the leftists is pretty good evidence that this opinion is right on. Really, though, isn't this pretty much a no brainer?; 4/2/14, 1:12 PM
Patrick said...: But Bruce Springsteen is not mentioned. Seems that omission almost has to be deliberate.

Or maybe Justice Roberts odd just way more hip than me.; 4/2/14, 1:17 PM
rhhardin said...: It's too bad Will Cuppy wasn't a supreme court justice, master of the footnote.; 4/2/14, 2:01 PM
Unknown said...: No amount of direct donation will ever touch the donations in kind to democrats from CNN, cbs, abc, etc. Not to mention the theme from Hollywood in tv and movies of "republicans bad, democrats good." At least these direct donations are recorded and transparent.; 4/2/14, 3:09 PM
cassandra lite said...: Nancy Sinatra tweeted how sad it was that "we" the "little people" are priced out of the influence market. Her dad raised millions by organizing and performing at soirees for his good buddy JFK.; 4/2/14, 3:32 PM
Anonymous said...: The Supremes haven't mentioned the MSM propagandists' unlimited campaign contributions to the Dems.; 4/2/14, 4:02 PM
Anonymous said...: McCullough, an ambassadorship is chump change. If you can bundle $500,000 "donations", you can net $535 millions taxpayers' money to close down your money losing operations. Ask Kaiser, Buffett, and get-money-out-of-politics Soros how to guarantee their returns on their "investments".; 4/2/14, 4:11 PM
n.n said...: Enlightenment was short-lived.; 4/2/14, 5:56 PM
mikee said...: I almost automatically have to approve anything done by Robert Duvall, as there is essentially no acting part I have seen him in that displeased me.

Such bigotry on my part is fairly limited, and certainly does not extend to any of the others mentioned.; 4/3/14, 1:32 PM