Justice Roberts needed “a little honest feedback”
Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. recently complained about President Obama's State of the Union speech criticism of the court's Citizens United ruling. Now, the head of the League of Women Voters (LWV) has a message for Justice Roberts: "a little honest feedback can be a good thing."
In this letter to the editor of the Washington Post, LWV President Mary G. Wilson writes:
It is particularly important in this instance, since the decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission clearly revealed that the majority on the court has an astonishingly naive view of how corruption works in our nation's capital. Everyone else in the room understood that allowing huge sums of unregulated cash into our elections will undermine the role of individual voters and further expose our elected officials to the siren calls of corporate lobbyists.
Buck up, Mr. Chief Justice. Occasionally there are some things you really need to hear.
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