Posted on 21 April 2014. Tags: Campaign Finance, Citizens United, Elections, John Paul Stevens, McCutcheon
When a former Supreme Court Justice speaks out, essentially calling his former colleagues just short of dishonest, it’s worth taking note. Justice John Paul Stevens is angry at the Court’s Citizens United decision and the more recent decision in McCutcheon and is calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn the decisions.
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Posted on 14 January 2011. Tags: Antonin Scalia, Campaign Finance, Citizens United, Constitution, Corporate Power, Corporate Rights, Corruption, Justice, Linda Greenhouse, Robbery, Supreme Court of the United States
It is has been pointed out by others that when the Republicans chose to organize the reading of the Constitution on the House floor, they conveniently left out parts they didn’t like. But, they have intellectual–and I use "intellectual" loosely–support for this from Justice Scalia and his wing of convenient Constitutionalists who choose to […]
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