01/23/2017
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"The President's charge right there before all the American people that the Court had opened the door to special interests, bankrolling elections, I think was very misleading."
"It did not reverse a century of law because there was no law limiting independent expenditures until 1947."
"The President claimed that the decision 'reversed a century of law' and 'opened the floodgates' for special interests and foreign powers to 'bankroll American elections.'"
"Citizens United found that independent expenditures, advertisements, pamphlets, books, documentaries produced independently from a party or candidate's campaign cannot be suppressed under the First Am..."