Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL): Citizens United Is Just Like Brown V. Board!
Sessions Compares Citizens United To Landmark Civil Rights Case
With all the discussion at Elena Kagan’s confirmation hearing of the recent Supreme Court ruling in the Citizens United case, many Americans are probably in need of an easy primer to understand the decision, which holds that corporations, like individual citizens, can make unlimited political contributions. According to Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the top Republican on the Judiciary committee, it’s just like the time the Supreme Court desegregated public schools!
Last night, elaborating on his criticisms of former Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, Sessions made the unusual comparison of Citizens United v. FEC to Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.