Speaking at the Clinton School of Public Service in Arkansas retired Associate Justice John Paul Stevens has strongly backed President Obama's State of the Union Address critique of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. And, he suggests, the court may move to narrow the impact of the ruling:
On January 27, 2010, in his State of the Union address, President Obama declared:
On January 27, 2010, in his State of the Union address, President Obama declared:
"with all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests - including foreign corporations- to spend without limit in our elections. I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities."!
In that succinct comment, the former professor of constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School made three important and accurate observations about the Supreme Court majority's opinion in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.The full text is HERE
First, it did reverse a century of law; second, it did authorize unlimited election-related expenditures by America's most powerful interests; and, third, the logic of the opinion extends to money spent by foreign entities.
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