So. Sandra Day O'Connor is dismayed by the Supremes ruling about Corporate "free speech"

On CNN she expresses her worries that so many judicial races are political, and that she would have voted with the minority regarding corporate donations and "free speech".

Well, to quote Madame Justice the night that Gore won Florida as announced on TV at her cocktail party, "This is terrible!"

It's YOUR legacy, Madame. A direct result of your Bush v Gore vote. Enjoy.

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WASHINGTON— Justice Sandra Day O’Connor did not sound happy on Tuesday about the Supreme Court’s big campaign finance decision last week. It repudiated a major part of a ruling Justice O’Connor helped write before her retirement from the court in 2006, and it complicated her recent efforts to do away with judicial elections.

“Gosh,” she said, “I step away for a couple of years and there’s no telling what’s going to happen.”...

She added that last week’s decision was likely to create “an increasing problem for maintaining an independent judiciary.”

“In invalidating some of the existing checks on campaign spending,” Justice O’Connor said, “the majority in Citizens United has signaled that the problem of campaign contributions in judicial elections might get considerably worse and quite soon.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/us/politics/27judge.html

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:silly:

She has a lot of experience in overriding the people's will.

A new one on me :rofl: