“Giving corporate interests an outsized role in our process will only mean citizens get heard less,” said Senator Robert Menendez of New Jersey, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. “We must look at legislative ways to make sure the ledger is not tipped so far for corporate interests that citizens voices are drowned out.”
"The five-justice majority set aside a century of precedents and conveyed essentially full First Amendment speech rights on corporations in ruling that campaign finance limits are unconstitutional. It could unleash up to $1 trillion in corporate money for attack ads in the next election cycle."
"It's the Super Bowl of bad decisions," said Common Cause president Bob Edgar, a former congressman from Pennsylvania.
Now I know what Rahm Emanuel meant when he said, "When you think about the First Amendment...you think it's highly overrated."
Read more: Supreme Court Overturns finance Laws
Those voting RIGHT were Paul Stevens, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Bryer, Sonia Sotomayor.
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