BY JOE CONASON This week marked the anniversary of the Citizens United decision, which exposed American democracy to increasing domination by the country’s very richest and most reactionary figures – modern heirs to those “malefactors of great wealth” condemned by the great Republican Theodore Roosevelt – so it is worth recalling the false promise made by the justice who wrote the majority opinion in that case. Justice Anthony Kennedy masterminded the Supreme Court’s Jan. 21, […]

The Man Who Drowned Democracy With ‘Sewer Money’
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