Did The US Senate Just Admit We Need To Amend The Constitution?

"The Senate began debate Tuesday on a Democrat-proposed constitutional amendment that would allow the government to regulate campaign money again, a response to recent Supreme Court rulings that removed limits on certain election contributions.

Democrats argue that the Supreme Court's decisions in two cases allowed billionaires -most notably conservatives Charles and David Koch - to influence politics at rates disproportionate to the rest of the populace...

Divided along partisan lines, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., spearheaded their parties' opposing views as the Senate Judiciary Committee debated the proposed amendment.

"The flood of dark money into our nation's political system poses the greatest threat to our democracy that I have witnessed during my tenure in public service," Reid said. "The decisions by the Supreme Court have left the American people with a status quo in which one side's billionaires are pitted against the other side's billionaires."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Philip Elliot / Fresno Bee:

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