KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV) -
Hundreds if not thousands of individuals gathered outside more than 110 federal courthouses across the U.S. in protest Friday.
About 150 were outside the U.S. courthouse in downtown Kansas City Friday to mark the 2010 ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court in Citizens United v. The Federal Election Commission.
Occupy Courts organizers hung signs over major thoroughfares.
The U.S. Supreme Court decision allows corporations and unions to raise unlimited amounts of money for campaigning and ballot initiatives.
"This is a profoundly corrupting aspect to our democratic process," said Mary Lindsay with KC Move to Amend. "It's based on two crazy precedents, one of them is that money is speech and the other is that corporations are persons. Well, both of those are crazy and very destructive to democracy."
Olivia English, 19, said this is an issue that has touched Americans of all ages.
Louann Stahl hasn't held a picket since the Vietnam Warm.
"I'm coming out today because I want my children born into a democracy like I was 80 years old," Stahl said. "We no longer have a democracy. We have an oligarchy, which means the government is controlled by a very few wealthy and powerful people."
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