From Justice Stevens dissent in Citizens United:
“It is gutting campaign finance laws across the country.”
“Today’s decision is backwards in many senses. It eleÂvates the majority’s agenda over the litigants’ submisÂsions, facial attacks over as-applied claims, broad constituÂtional theories over narrow statutory grounds, individual dissenting opinions over precedential holdings, assertion over tradition, absolutism over empiricism, rhetoric over reality.”
“While American democracy is imperfect, few outside the majority of this Court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.”
