Procrustes Stretched
"intuition and imagination and intelligence"
Ronald Reagan Profile In Alzheimer's Award Goes To: Justice Kennedy
Here we have an elderly man, who in the most public fashion, exhibited cognitive as well as intellectual deterioration, to an extent that should have embarrassed all who witnessed it.
In his reasoning for Citizens United:
“We now conclude that independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.”
"Favoritism and influence are not . . . avoidable in representative politics. It is in the nature of an elected representative to favor certain policies, and, by necessary corollary, to favor the voters and contributors who support those policies."
Citizens United: How Justice Kennedy has paved the way for the return of soft money - Slate Magazine
Boston Review — Lawrence Lessig: Democracy After Citizens United
"...adding the words “and contributors” not only makes the statement not obvious (as Justice Kennedy seems to believe), but in my view, plainly wrong. The framers did not intend to make representatives dependent upon contributors. Representatives were to be dependent upon voters, or, more generally, “the People alone.” - Lawrence Lessig
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