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Citizens United was literally about citizens showing a film critical of a political candidate. It’s one of the purest examples of free political speech there is.

No Supreme Court justices are bought.

I share your concern about the lack of seriousness with which many seem to regard the Capitol riot, which is a black stain on our history.

> Citizens United was literally about citizens showing a film critical of a political candidate. It’s one of the purest examples of free political speech there is.

You should read fuller accounts, it’s a fair bit more complicated than that.

The part that made it so harmful, at any rate, was the court deciding without prompting from the plaintiffs to buck their normal “as narrow as possible and don’t make things major constitutional questions unless you have to” policy and widen the case to be about something it initially was not, with the result that campaign finance control at all and keeping foreign money at least kinda out of US politics became impossible.

> No Supreme Court justices are bought.

Uh. I dunno what to say. Yikes.

Pretend George Soros had been giving Sotomayor gifts amounting to huge sums of money over many, many years in ways that plainly violate rules for lower court judges, and that she’s “accidentally” not disclosed a lot of it.

> No Supreme Court justices are bought.

What do you call the controversy around Thomas and his billionaire benefactor?