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To: Sully- who wrote (77126)	1/28/2010 12:17:32 AM
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Oh, How I Love Justice Alito Kathryn Jean Lopez] The Corner Here's the video: And, no, that's not the same as yelling during a SOTU speech. At all. It may be uncharacteristic of modern-day Supreme Court justices. But there's nothing inappropriate there. corner.nationalreview.com

To: Sully- who wrote (77126)	1/28/2010 12:21:13 AM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

President Wrong on Citizens United Case Bradley A. Smith The Corner Tonight the president engaged in demogoguery of the worst kind, when he claimed that last week's Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC, "open[ed] the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities." The president's statement is false. The Court held that 2 U.S.C. Section 441a, which prohibits all corporate political spending, is unconstitutional. Foreign nationals, specifically defined to include foreign corporations, are prohibiting from making "a contribution or donation of money or ather thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State or local election" under 2 U.S.C. Section 441e, which was not at issue in the case. Foreign corporations are also prohibited, under 2 U.S.C. 441e, from making any contribution or donation to any committee of any political party, and they prohibited from making any "expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication... ." This is either blithering ignorance of the law, or demogoguery of the worst kind. — Bradley A. Smith is Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law at Capital University Law School corner.nationalreview.com