January 22 (Edward B. Foley)A quarter-century from now, when we celebrate the bicentennial of de Tocqueville's Democracy in America, Citizens United may look less of a watershed and more of a muddle. But a muddle would not be bad, in terms of the health of the nation's democracy, if it means Congress is attempting to limit in focused ways particular forms of corporate spending that injures the public interest--and if the Court comes to respect these targeted congressional responses.
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