what happens when the Republicans get five appointees on the Supreme Court?

all the 5-to-4 Republican appointee decisions line up to help corporations against humans.

the Court made new law, 5-to-4, and each decision predictably helped Republicans win elections.

As much as 40 percent of the Federal judiciary has gone to these special-interest-funded training sessions described by one writer as a 'cross between Maoist cultural re-education camps and Club Med.'

It looks like an interest group has put part of the Federal judiciary in its saddle.

I think you have seen more like 90 percent of the public unhappy with Citizens United because they see the problem that it caused in our democracy.

There is a--it has been I think fairly and fully documented that there is a small group of billionaires who are working very hard to influence and even to control our democracy: Kochs, Mercers, DeVoses, and, yes, Anschutzes.

It creates an egregious ethical conflict of interest bordering on wholly improper out-of-court communication with special interest lobbyists or representatives of people who have filed lawsuits.

Clearly, I mean, just on that alone, it does not even pass the dictionary test. Clearly, there is no independence.

Congress can rewrite these laws. Congress can demand disclosure.

Tellingly, big special interests and their front groups are spending millions of dollars in a dark money campaign to push your confirmation.

So let us go to that point, because they did say that no amount of corporate spending--none, there is no limit on the amount of corporate spending in politics that could lead to either corruption or the appearance of corruption.

As to transparency, this whole dark money problem belies their assumption of transparency.

And public confidence has crashed in government since that decision.

Once you let certain political interests achieve the kind of dominance that Citizens United has let them get, they can start to exert disproportionate control over Congress.

I think these 5-to-4 decisions are a problem.

I was elected to the Senate in 2006. I was sworn in in 2007.

Stick with it because it is going away unless the judiciary breathes a little bit of life into it.