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Transcript Of An Interview With The Five Conservative Justices About The Recent Corporate Free Speech Case.

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Let me say first that I am most grateful for your willingness to sit for an interview about a particular case, which is never done by individual Justices, let alone a collective group of Justices. So I deeply appreciate your willingness to do this.

JR: No problem. We know you will play it straight down the right. So we know you will be fair.

May I offer you some amontillado?

YR: No thanks.

Justice Roberts, the dissent said your group of five were striking a blow against democracy. President Obama said, and I quote, "This ruling strikes at our democracy itself . . . . I can't think of anything more devastating to the public interest. The last thing we need to do is hand more influence to the lobbyists in Washington or more power to the special interests to tip the outcome of elections." So your group of five is charged with attacking democracy. Do you have a response?

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Lawrence R. Velvel is a cofounder and the Dean of the Massachusetts School of Law, and is the founder of the American College of History and Legal Studies.
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