From "The Corner" blog at National Review:
President Wrong on Citizens United Case
The president's statement is false.
The Court held that 2 U.S.C. Section 441a, which prohibits all corporate political spending, is unconstitutional. Foreign nationals, specifically defined to include foreign corporations, are prohibiting from making "a contribution or donation of money or ather thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State or local election" under 2 U.S.C. Section 441e, which was not at issue in the case. Foreign corporations are also prohibited, under 2 U.S.C. 441e, from making any contribution or donation to any committee of any political party, and they prohibited from making any "expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement for an electioneering communication... ."
This is either blithering ignorance of the law, or demogoguery of the worst kind.
— Bradley A. Smith is Josiah H. Blackmore II/Shirley M. Nault Designated Professor of Law at Capital University Law School
It is unfortunate that we have a POTUS who is arrogantly ignorant and practices demagoguery on a regular basis.
We really need to ask whether Obozo is “smarter than a 6th grader”????
To botch so completely the import of the SCOTUS decision is pure babble....
one can only wonder in anguish what kind of drivel he presented to law students in Chicago — but then from what I’ve read all he real “taught” was race/gender/class demagoguery and not “constitutional law” at all
the idea that this ranting charlatan in POTUS is truly nauseating
bttt