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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRuth Bader Ginsburg: Citizens United Was The Current Supreme Court's Worst Ruling
"I think the notion that we have all the democracy that money can buy strays so far from what our democracy is supposed to be," she said.
Ginsburg said that the Court, in CItizens United as well as in the case of Shelby County, "should have respected the legislative judgment."
"Legislators know much more about elections than the Court does. ... I think members of the legislature, people who have to run for office, know the connection between money and influence on what laws get passed."
According to Ginsburg, things may have played out differently had Justice Sandra Day O'Connor not retired so soon. She told The New Republic that O'Connor would have sided with the minority on Citizens United, Shelby County, as well as the Court's Hobby Lobby ruling.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/28/ruth-bader-ginsburg-citizens-united_n_5897760.html
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(43,890 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)EEO
(1,620 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)that really is - in my opinion - where that decision leads, no humor in it.
Because when a prior ruling holds that corporations are, in fact, people, and we have people like Mitt Romney saying just that, then it's an ominous sign of where things lead when these rulings get it wrong.
Wella
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FlatStanley
(327 posts)becomes synonymous with judicial malfeasance.
calimary
(81,440 posts)Couldn't even get it right when he had more than two months to practice. HAD to fuck up the soundbite of the oath-taking of the first Black American President. First African American President of the United States. And roberts fucked up the soundbite. Couldn't get the oath straight and botched it - so definitively that they had to do the damn thing over!
Just galls me to NO end! No. As a retired broadcast journalist, I WON'T get over that! That priceless, historic, epic soundbite - that WILL be among the soundbites used in EVERY retrospective and historical review from now on - including eventual retrospectives on the entire 21st CENTURY - is RUINED. FOREVER. Thanks, roberts. You idiot ASS. And the "president" you rode in on.
FlatStanley
(327 posts)Roberts is a very small man.
And you're right. That historic moment will be forever tarnished. I never really considered that until you pointed it out.
calimary
(81,440 posts)JHB
(37,161 posts)There's been some turnover since 2000 (not nearly enough, though).
Ampersand Unicode
(503 posts)At least if that one had gone differently, we who will ultimately suffer under the impending Fourth Reich would have had a chance to get out from under it.
mr_liberal
(1,017 posts)elias7
(4,026 posts)You should explain yourself. Your "eom" silliness ended your bizarre message prematurely. Are you seeking to push the court even further to the right?
eggplant
(3,913 posts)Hahahahahahahaha.
Ha.
Rex
(65,616 posts)Everything else is due to cascade failure.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)This supreme court appears to be bent on the destruction of this nation. Maybe they don't recognize that corporate rule would be a bad thing. If they do not recognize this they are fucking idiots.
Baitball Blogger
(46,756 posts)I mean, when you write down the list of bad Supreme Court decisions, selecting a president for the nation has to be giving the top choice some competition.
SunSeeker
(51,662 posts)It is what installed the idiot that brought us the Iraq War, and appointed the Supreme Court justice that made Citizens United possible--an opening created when Sandra Day O'Connor resigned. I will never forgive Sandra Day O'Connor for siding with the majority in Bush v. Gore, then letting Bush replace her with an even more conservative justice. If she had stayed on, she probably would have been the swing vote against Citizen United. The fact that O'Connor now appears to have regrets about it just pisses me off even more.