
101: Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse on The Right’s 50-Year Scheme to Capture SCOTUS
The Al Franken Podcast
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The Citizens United Decision Was Based on a Fundamental Factual Error
The First Amendment protects political speech and disclosure permits citizens and shareholders to react to the speech of corporate entities in a proper way. The whole basis for the Citizens United decision was grounded in an enormous basic factual error. In this podcast, I tell a remarkable story about that vote where a Republican colleague of mine said the stupidest thing any senator ever said to me.
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