Why Justice Souter should publish his secret dissent in Citizens United. Indeed, Members of Congress are particularly grateful when negative issue advertisements are run by these organizations, leaving the candidates free to run positive advertisements and be seen as ‘above the fray.’ Political consultants testify that campaigns are quite aware of who is running advertisements on the candidate’s behalf, when they are being run, and where they are being run. It is only certain Members of this Court, not the listeners themselves, who have agitated for more corporate electioneering.It might also be added that corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires. Corporations help structure and facilitate the activities of human beings, to be sure, and their “personhood” often serves as a useful legal fiction. Roberts’s choice was: a lot.Roberts didn’t mind spirited disagreement on the merits of any case, but Souter’s attack—an extraordinary, bridge-burning farewell to the Court—could damage the Court’s credibility. ” [Note by AFA, and yet 501c6 trade associations with foreign members and allowed foreign directors may fund in unlimited and undisclosed manner, money for electioneering from their unsegregated member coffer].~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Addicted to each other’s power and money, the political parties and their corporate donors are constantly trying to enlarge their relationship out of sight of the American public. They could no longer complain about being sandbagged, because the new Questions Presented would be unmistakably clear. But, as Roberts knew, the conservatives would go into the second argument already having five votes for the result they wanted.
So the Chief came up with a strategically ingenious maneuver. David Hackett Souter (/ ˈ s uː t ər /; born September 17, 1939) is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.He served from October 1990 until his retirement in June 2009. Jeffrey Toobin writes in the current issue of The New Yorker about Money Unlimited: how Chief Justice John Roberts orchestrated the Citizens United decision. He would agree to withdraw Kennedy’s draft majority opinion and put Citizens United down for reargument, in the fall.
Justice Stevens - minority opinion [arguments given for protecting your personhood sovereignty over government of, by, and for the people, and that money is not speech] Citizens United v FEC Secretly Buying Access to a Governor – But whether the money is secret or disclosed, both parties are routinely selling access to the nation’s governors and their staffs to those with the most resources. The proposal put the liberals in a box. 8 (“[N]o Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust … shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State”). An accidental Internet disclosure last month showed that the stealthy form of political corruption known as “dark money” now fully permeates governor’s offices around the country, allowing corporations to push past legal barriers and gather enormous influence. Citizens United (split from Souter) News; Thread starter turbo; Start date Jun 19, 2010; Jun 19, 2010 Yes, Stewart said: “Those could have been applied to additional media as well.”So, as the Chief Justice chose how broadly to change the law in this area, the real question for him, it seems, was how much he wanted to help the Republican Party. “The distinctive threat to democratic integrity posed by corporate domination of politics was recognized at “the inception of the republic” and “has been a persistent theme in American political life” ever since.
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