Sen Grassley thinks dumping CitizensUnited means Bill of Rights goes next
Sen Chuck Grassley Absurdly Claims if Dems succeed in getting rid of #CiitizensUnited Bill of Rights will soon follow
"'But it’s scary to tell you that four justices already are on record saying that freedom of speech is a collective right and somehow not an individual right. Four liberal justices have an upside-down understanding of the Constitution. They would vote to allow the Congress to limit your right to participate in the political process by limiting speech. Now the Constitution has to be amended to do that after the Supreme Court has gone a long ways in that direction. But did you know that there are liberal elements in the United States Senate, almost all of them have introduced a Constitutional amendment that would start amending the First Amendment. That’s a slippery slope [that] could lead us to the abolishment of the Bill of Rights as we’ve known it for 230 years. We can’t let that happen.'
"This is a bit of a jaw-dropping statement. After all, Citizens United only dates from January 21, 2010, making it just a few days over five years old and it is a money laundering scheme anyway. It is not a defense of democracy or free speech but rather the opposite, an attack on democracy and a means of keeping Republicans in power."
Video and more here:
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/01/26/sen-chuck-grassley-absurdly-claims-bill-rights-dependent-citizens-united.html
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