Zhi Zhu 🕸️<p>"The court’s <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>liberal</span></a> members... were unpersuaded by Kennedy’s reasoning... criticized the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/conservative" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>conservative</span></a> majority for its dangerous nonchalance toward the corrosive effects of <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a>...</p><p>Stevens’s dissent... carries even greater weight w/the benefit of hindsight. He described Kennedy’s majority opinion as “a rejection of the common sense of the <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> people, who have recognized a need to prevent <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/corporations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corporations</span></a> from undermining self-government"<br><a href="https://newrepublic.com/article/193058/elon-musk-citizens-united-kennedy" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">newrepublic.com/article/193058</span><span class="invisible">/elon-musk-citizens-united-kennedy</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a></p>