Former Justice Stevens: Supreme Court will ‘crack’ Citizens United

[babsbunny]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/05/31/former-justice-stevens-supreme-court-will-crack-citizens-united/

By Stephen C. Webster
Thursday, May 31, 2012 13:57 EDT

Former United States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, 92, said during a Wednesday night speech that he’s convinced his former associates on the nation’s highest court will soon find it necessary to issue an opinion “that will create a crack in the foundation of the Citizens United majority opinion.”

Citizens United, a landmark Supreme Court decision in 2010 that reversed over 100 years of campaign finance law by permitting unlimited, anonymous money to flow into the U.S. political process, has been under attack by President Barack Obama and fellow Democrats, who’ve reluctantly embraced the super PAC system it created in order to fight off the Republican Party’s wealthiest supporters.

Speaking to the University of Arkansas’ Clinton School of Public Service just a day after being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Stevens referenced Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, in which the Supreme Court decided that terrorist groups do not have free speech rights, and Bluman v. F.E.C., where Justices ruled that a Canadian attorney could not spend unlimited sums to influence U.S. elections

[orpupilofnature57]

1. Is there hope?

[valerief]

3. Probably not. This just means the fix in. The evil overlords have won. There's no going back. nt

[MrSlayer]

2. It'll be too late.

Once they use it to get all the fascists into power it won't matter anymore. The game will be over. Bah, who are we kidding? It's been over.

[agent46]

4. All they need

All they need is this election. They're setting up to steal it now.