Steve Cohen: “In a few minutes, we are going to have the reading of the United States Constitution--a show for the American…”

“In a few minutes, we are going to have the reading of the United States Constitution--a show for the American public--for anybody who knows anything about constitutional law knows that it is up to nine men and women as to what the Constitution says. When the Constitution was originally drafted--and I love it and I defend it--it didn't give women the right to vote, and it said slavery was permissible. Until the vilified Warren Court, in its correct decision in Brown v. Board of Education, it said separate was equal, and we knew it wasn't. African Americans were held back with Jim Crow laws. Five people on the Supreme Court, not the whole nine, can make decisions that change the way the Constitution is interpreted. Bush v. Gore, an abomination of a case that determined the Presidency for 8 years and took away States' rights. The Citizens United case funded the opposition that turned in the majority that the Republicans now have. Making corporations the equal of people and putting money into politics poisoned the political system. The Supreme Court should read the Constitution. They need a lesson.”