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2016 Postmortem

Auggie

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8. She's on record: From the N.Y. Times, May 19, 2015 ...

Reply to kath (Reply #7)

Tue Jul 7, 2015, 07:25 PM

Jul 2015

Most presidential candidates go out of their way to avoid appearances of having a litmus test for Supreme Court appointees. So it was unusual when Mrs. Clinton on Monday said publicly that she did have such a metric: overturning the Citizens United decision of 2010.

“I will do everything I can to appoint Supreme Court justices who protect the right to vote and do not protect the right of billionaires to buy elections,” Mrs. Clinton said while on Day 1 of a two-day swing through Iowa.

http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/05/19/today-in-politics-clinton-says-citizens-united-would-guide-her-supreme-court-picks/

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Why 2016 will be a Supreme Court election [View all] Gothmog Jul 2015 OP

Agree. Very important election. n/t FSogol Jul 2015 #1

It is why sitting out the election because you didnt get exactly who you wanted, will not just randys1 Jul 2015 #2

Even Rick Perry thinks that control of the SCOTUS is an imporant issue Gothmog Jul 2015 #3

MOST IMPORTANT REASON: the opportunity to overturn Citizen's United. Auggie Jul 2015 #4

No way in hell will HRC's corporate and Wall Street donors let her appoint anyone whom they kath Jul 2015 #7

She's on record: From the N.Y. Times, May 19, 2015 ... Auggie Jul 2015 #8

Her husband's two appointees both voted against it dsc Jul 2015 #9

Sanders has a litmus test for Supreme Court appointments. LWolf Jul 2015 #5

So does Hillary Clinton Gothmog Jul 2015 #6