CAMPAIGN FINANCE

“Sandra Day O’Connor, a veteran of the Arizona legislature, has expressed outrage at the Citizens United decision and the [U.S. Supreme] Court’s other deregulatory actions on campaign finance, because she knows firsthand what it means to raise money to run for office. When you understand the real reasons that people and corporations subsidize candidates, as O’Connor does, the Court’s pious invocations of ‘freedom of speech’ sound almost comically oblivious.”

Jeffrey Toobin, “Court Politics,” a Talk of the Town essay in the New Yorker, March 28, 2016, pp: 21-22.