Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

is a wrongheaded decision, for the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be.

If there was one decision I would overrule, it would be Citizens...

is shorthand for the U.S. Supreme Court’s belief that money is speech in the same way that a fire hose is a faucet.

Citizens United, n. Shorthand for the U.S. Supreme Court’s belief that money is speech in the same way that a fire hose is a faucet.

is a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt.

At bottom, the Court's opinion is thus a rejection of the common sense of the American people, who have recognized a need to prevent corporations from undermining self-government since the founding, and who have fought against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering since the days of Theodore Roosevelt. It is a strange time to repudiate that common sense. While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.

is wrongly decided, for a democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.

A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.

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citizens united v. federal election commission