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Holding Politicians Accountable
Hillary Clinton Just Delivered the Strongest Speech of Her Campaign—and the Media Barely Noticed
Madison, Wisconsin—Hillary Clinton delivered the strongest speech of her 2016 campaign in Wisconsin this week, and the media barely noticed. In this absurd campaign season, when media outlets devote hours of time to arguments about which Republican candidate insulted which wife, about violent a…
Senate Republicans should stop being Mitchions and do their job. Tell them.
And it’s obstruction a majority of Americans oppose: “According to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, a sizable majority of Americans — including a strong contingent of independents — think the Senate should at least hold hearings on President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court.”
Republican Senators really don’t want to talk about the Supreme Court vacancy: “Several senators ran away from The Huffington Post this week as we tried to ask if they thought a Supreme Court nominee should get a hearing.”
They know their position is indefensible.
Senate Republicans have declared their intention to block the confirmation of ANY Supreme Court nominee by President Obama. This is a truly radical refusal to fulfill the Senate’s constitutional obligation to vote on Supreme Court nominee confirmations. The American people deserve better.
Add your name to tell the Senate to fulfill its constitutional obligation!
We need a Supreme Court who cares more about the right to vote of a person than the right to buy an election of a corporation.
If elected president, I will have a litmus test in terms of my nominee to be a Supreme Court justice. That nominee will say that we are all going to overturn this disastrous Supreme Court decision on Citizens United, because that decision is undermining American democracy. I do not believe that billionaires should be able to buy politicians.
(Source: talkingaboutmoneyin2016)
Chief Justice Roberts Accidentally Reveals Everything That’s Wrong With Citizens United In Four Sentences
I think the first thing that she’ll do, quite frankly—and that this will set her apart from her Republican opponents—is that she’ll appoint Supreme Court justices who protect the right of every American to vote, not every corporation to buy an election.
New York Times: Robert Menendez Indictment Points to Corrupting Potential of Super PACs
In Citizens United, the Supreme Court said independent groups can’t be corrupting because they are independent. This indictment against Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) shows how wrong they were.