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'So Corrupt': DOJ Drops Antitrust Case Against Company Represented by Bondi's Former Lobbying Firm

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'So Corrupt': DOJ Drops Antitrust Case Against Company Represented by Bondi's Former Lobbying Firm | Common Dreams

The U.S. Justice Department this week dropped an antitrust case against a company represented by the lobbying firm that employed Pam Bondi before her confirmation as attorney general earlier this year.

American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT) has paid the lobbying giant Ballard Partners hundreds of thousands of dollars this year to pressure Bondi's Justice Department on "antitrust issues," according to federal disclosures.

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The president is a fucking child rapist. This barely registers. Not that it shouldn’t, I’m just saying we’re too fucking far gone.
It is truly astonishing to me that we somehow allow official lobbying of the justice department by firms like this. Foundationally corrupt system.
- Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
  The framers considered this such a basic right that it's right there in the 1st Amendment. And not all lobbying is bad! We only hear about the corrupt shit like this.
  
  Corporations should not be allowed to lobby. With all that money and concentrated effort capitalism can produce, the people will always lose.
  I will never understand why people believe corporate influence on the government is so fucking important. It will come naturally, through the people not by lobbyist if you deny their influence
  
  That’s great and all, but I don’t see anything in that sentence that says ‘corporation (who is apparently a legal person) has the right to pay another entity vast sums of money to petition the govt to not enforce laws mandated by congress.

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