ELECTIONS: Overturn Citizens United

The U.S. Supreme Court has a chance now to fix the enormous mistake it made in the Citizens United decision. A Montana case challenging that Supreme Court decision has just been appealed back to the Court.

The Citizens United case, crazily, said corporations have a “free speech” right to spend unlimited sums of money influencing our elections, as if corporations were people. They aren’t.

Polls show 80 percent of Americans want Citizens United overturned.

Justice Scalia recently said, “If the system seems crazy to you, don’t blame it on the court.” [Well, I do blame it on the Supreme Court. Its decision in the Citizens United case two years ago is destroying our democracy.

MADELEINE HOFFMAN

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