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JHan

(10,173 posts)
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 02:15 PM Mar 2017

President Obama on Citizens United..

I think the campaign finance case he was asked about at the start of the video is FEC vs McCutcheon

This is from 2013.



If Hillary were elected, she would have appointed a justice to counter the conservatives on the bench in matters where "corporate personhood" and big money in politics are concerned. Yes, she is also against Citizen's United and note Obama's explanation of the predicament that ruling put all politicians in around 1:00 mark. (edit: my bad)






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President Obama on Citizens United.. (Original Post) JHan Mar 2017 OP
This is great for all of us to revisit and listen to the whole thing fun n serious Mar 2017 #1
Yes. ( I just corrected the time mark where he talks about how it affected politics in general) JHan Mar 2017 #2
And is against voting rights. fun n serious Mar 2017 #3
But the EMAILS! Calculating Mar 2017 #4
right?! and the more I look at Gorsuch the more I despair. JHan Mar 2017 #5

JHan

(10,173 posts)
2. Yes. ( I just corrected the time mark where he talks about how it affected politics in general)
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 02:27 PM
Mar 2017

Now we have a SCOTUS pick who has consistently ruled or dissented in favor of corporations.

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