Scalia gives Congress to his rich chums

Scalia has to go.

Dana Milbank: Supreme Court poised to make a bad situation worse – The Washington Post

“It’s not that we’re stopping people from spending big money on politics,” Justice Antonin Scalia argued. “When you add all that up, I don’t think $3.5?million is a heck of a lot of money.”

Actually, Nino, $3.5 million is a lot of money. As Solicitor General Donald Verrilli tried to point out, that means a party can get everything it needs to run all congressional races around the country from just 450 people. “Less than 500 people can fund the whole shooting match,” Verrilli said, adding: “There is a very real risk both that the government will be run of, by and for those 500 people and that the public will perceive that the government is being run of, by and for those 500 people.”

Scalia wasn’t impressed.

Dana Milbank: Supreme Court poised to make a bad situation worse – The Washington Post

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