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Monday, May 11th, 2015

Retired judge unloads on hypocritical Supreme Court: “They’re talking out of both sides of their mouth”

Author:     Elias Isquith
Source:     Salon
Publication Date:     Thursday, May 7, 2015 05:00 AM PDT
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Stephan:   It has the quality of a myth: In a country of 317 million people five aging male ideologues in an instant changed the very nature of American democracy. It was done with intention to give the uber-rich, who are the only people for whom Citizens United was directly relevant, who have the money to buy an election, control of the government. You can see the comic book pronounced angle drawing of  the Justices on the bench,  and any reader would see that in the next strip billionaires are holding auditions for a champion to serve their interests. This is an interview with former Montana Supreme Court Justice James Nelson. It is an insider's view and should be taken very seriously.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito poses for an official photograph with the other Justices at the Supreme Court in Washington, September 29, 2009. Credit: Reuters/Jim Young

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito poses for an official photograph with the other Justices at the Supreme Court in Washington, September 29, 2009.
Credit: Reuters/Jim Young

When the current Supreme Court makes news with a ruling pertaining to campaign finance, it is, almost without exception, a bad day for those who’d like to constrain money’s influence on American government. But I write “almost without exception” for a reason — because on the second-to-last day of April, when precious few were paying attention, the Supreme Court issued a ruling to make it harder for the wealthy to buy control of the government. (Shockingly, this news was not accompanied by a report of a pig who learned to fly.)

Yet while the so-called Williams-Yulee ruling, which upheld a Florida law barring judicial candidates from personally seeking campaign funds from donors, was greeted by many in the campaign finance […]

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