1) Alito wasn't mentioned. He said: "With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court 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."
2) I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests or, worse, by foreign entities. They should be decided by the American people."
3) That holds up well. It's actually been worse than Obama warned in some ways.
4) Meanwhile Trump blustered about the 9th circuit and "Obama judges" and vaguely threatened that he wasn't going to let the 9th circuit decide cases anymore at the same time he has unconstitutionally put an unconfirmed and unqualified lackey in charge of the Justice Department
5) He also reportedly wanted to prosecute his political enemies and has relentlessly tried to undermine - if not end - the independent investigation into Russia's interference in our elections.
6) Trump through his words and deeds clearly has zero respect for the rule of law and wants to get rid of the independence of the judiciary in the United States so he can have a system more like his friends in Saudi Arabia and Russia.
7) And yet Republicans flipped out in faux, sanctimonious outrage over Obama's comment on Citizens United. Faced with Trump's relentless effort to do away with independent rule of law in our country, they enable him through silence and applause and recycled attacks on Obama
8) The most shocking story in American politics these last two years is not Trump, it is the total acquiescence of the Republican Party to lies, corruption, and authoritarianism. Funded, of course, by unchecked dark money facilitated by the Citizens United decision.
