Alito visibly responds negatively when president mentions recent decision
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito didn't like hearing President Barack Obama publicly criticize the high court's ruling removing corporate campaign spending limits — and he didn't try to hide it.
Alito made a dismissive face, shook his head repeatedly and appeared to mouth the words "not true" or possibly "simply not true" when Obama asailed the decision Wednesday night in his State of the Union address.
The president had taken the unusual step of publicly scolding the high court, with some of its members in robes seated before him in the House. "With all due deference to the separation of powers," he said, the court last week "reversed a century of law that I believe will open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections."
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16 comments:
truth hurts
I agree with him for doing this. They just sold our whole democratic process down the river, or should I say across the pond.
President Obama doesn't care. He was told to make the statement to give the appearance that he cares.
The corporations who placed him into power and tell him what to say are simply providing cover for what is obviously a terrible constitutional problem.
Our Nation is being changed right before our eyes.
well at least he wasn't rude enough to yell out "you lie".
It is an awful ruling, but it was equally awful for him to lecture them.
Obama will stoop to the lowest level in his political pandering!
Thank goodness for the Supreme Court with him in the White House.
the unions cant stand the competition
There is still a clause in the Supreme Court decision that prohibits foreign contributions. THATS why he said 'not true'.
The Great One misled.
I thought someone gave Alito a wedgie
2:22, no misleading. There is nothing preventing foreigners from owning stock in the same companies that can now influence the governing process even more.
2:22, there is no clause in the decision that says that. Now you're misleading.
The Dem party relies upon the millions they get from the Unions in return for them bashing Business. Business can now pay to get their side of the story out there.
This is what Obama fears.
Bottom line is that it is still illegal for a foreign corporation to contribute to and/or spend monies in our Country on political ads and/or candidates, period!
ONCE AGAIN THE GREAT ONE LIED!!
Thats a grey area, things get blurry in there.
I cannot stand his divisive in your face style of governance. It is negatively impacting the dignity of the office.Though you may not agree with all of the Supreme Court's decisions, this is our system of justice and it should not be undermined period.
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."
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