Presidency for Sale ....Corp of Oprah
Oh my god ..... the Supreme Court under the fatal Roberts has just expanded a case and CHANGED LAWS without anyone asking them to do so.
Is that their new job description???????????????????????????
SCOTUS rolls back campaign finance laws >> PLUS. Read it.
Justice Stevens writes a NINETY PAGE dissenting opinion.
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Samuel Alito, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas joined Kennedy to form the majority in the main part of the case.
Roberts, in a separate opinion, said that upholding the limits would have restrained "the vibrant public discourse that is at the foundation of our democracy."
Kennedy, who dissented from the rulings the court overturned Thursday, said, "No sufficient government interest justifies limits on the political speech of nonprofit or for-profit corporations."
Stevens, in a 90-page opinion that dwarfed Kennedy's, complained that the court majority overreached by throwing out earlier Supreme Court decisions that had not been at issue when this case first came to the court.
"Essentially, five justices were unhappy with the limited nature of the case before us, so they changed the case to give themselves an opportunity to change the law," Stevens said.
The case began when a conservative