Thirteen years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.

Today, sold-out politicians block progress on all fronts to appease their corporate donors.

Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.

@rbreich I was thinking about this today in the wake of the @ProPublica reporting on the corruption in the Supreme Court and I started to wonder if that decision wasn’t just self-defense on the part of the conservative members who have now shown how influential rich folks can buy their opinions… if they think there’s not even the appearance of corruption when rich folks give them lavish vacations how could corporate donations to political actors be corrupt?