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Sen. Josh Hawley To Introduce Bill Reversing Citizens United
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 31, 2023 11:31am |
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| Category | Proposed Legislation |
| Author | Philip Wegmann |
| News Date | Tuesday, October 31, 2023 05:30:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | More than a decade ago, President Obama scolded the Supreme Court for reversing “a century of law” and opening “the floodgates for special interest” to “spend without limit in our elections.”
Sen. Josh Hawley told RealClearPolitics that the episode “predates me,” but on the substance of the question, the senior Republican senator from Missouri, the same young lawyer who once clerked for Roberts on the high court, sides with Obama, not the conservative justices.
Albeit for very different reasons. “I am an originalist,” he said in a Monday interview, “and I don’t think you can make an originalist case for business corporations being treated like individuals when it comes to the right to political speech.” |
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