Sorry if I am making this blog all-citizens-united-all-the-time, but Volokh’s blog is decidedly libertarian (which is defined by some wags as “a Republican who smokes pot”) so of course they are thrilled with the decision. But hey, if all they are doing is say, “Yay for us!” I wouldn’t bother to pass it on to you. But this kind of illuminates the issue.
For one thing, did you know that many states already allowed corporations to speak freely about elections before Citizens United? One is Maryland, or as we call it across the river in Virginia, “The People’s Republic of Maryland.” It’s not exactly a red state is all I am saying. So even the Democrats' unconstitutional argument that we should suppress that speech because they will lose elections fails, because clearly it doesn’t hurt them that much.
