Haunted By Dissent - A Message from Justice Stevens from the Grave

John Paul Stevens’ blistering dissent in the Citizens United case echoes in eternity, and we need to hear his message

“Such an assumption would have accorded the propaganda broadcasts to our troops by ‘Tokyo Rose’ during World War II the same protection as speech by Allied commanders. More pertinently, it would appear to afford the same protection to multinational corporations controlled by foreigners as to individual Americans.”—Justice John Paul Stevens, in his disse…