Vice President Joe Biden today defended the president’s criticism of the Supreme Court’s recent decision striking down a key campaign finance provision, saying that “the president didn’t question the integrity of the court for the decision they made. He questioned the judgment of it.”
On Good Morning America today, Biden responded to the president’s remarks on the court’s decision in his State of the Union address.
“With all due deference to separation of powers,” Obama said, “last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections.”
Biden said: “I think it’s an outrageous decision, Not outrageous in the fact that these guys are bad guys, outrageous in terms of the way in which to read the Constitution and what constitutes free speech.”
He continued:
A lot of these multinational corporations are owned as much by foreign interests as they are by domestic interests. And now for the first time you’re going to have corporations, foreign corporations, being able to contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to determine the outcome of an election in the United States of America.
As a result, these companies can, “with excessive amounts of money, influence the outcome of elections,” said Biden.
“What the president was saying was ‘look this was a big decision, a significant departure, a 5-4 decision, I think it was dead wrong and we have to correct it, and so Congress and the Senate, look at this. Look at it, and help me change it,'” he said.
Here’s the video:
