Supreme Court Associate Justices Anthony Kennedy testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 23, 2015, before a House Committee on Appropriations subcommittee on Financial Services hearing to review the Supreme Court’s fiscal 2016 budget request.
Credit: AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta
This week marked the anniversary of the Citizens United decision, which exposed American democracy to increasing domination by the country’s very richest and most reactionary figures—modern heirs to those “malefactors of great wealth” condemned by the great Republican Theodore Roosevelt—so it is worth recalling the false promise made by the justice who wrote the majority opinion in that case.
Justice Anthony Kennedy masterminded the Supreme Court’s Jan. 21, 2010 decision to undo a century of public-interest regulation of campaign expenditures in the name of “free speech.” He had every reason to know how damaging […]
It’s stunning that one judge–with some shadowy dealings in his past, no less–could have so compromised our democracy that, if left as it stands, is a democracy no more. I doubt the Founders intended that!