Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia doesn’t think there’s too much...
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia doesn’t think there’s too much money in politics, he told C-SPAN. “We spend less on our presidential campaigns each year, when there’s a presidential election, than the country spends on cosmetics,” he said, answering a…
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question about the effect of the Citizens United decision. People aren’t sheep, he said, and they won’t swallow whatever they see on TV or read in newspapers. “The premise of democracy is that people are intelligent and can discern the true from the false, at least when, as the campaign laws require, you know who is speaking.” Even if donors are anonymous, people know the organization that is speaking, and “the press can find out who’s hiding behind what,” he said. “That’s not hard.” Scalia also reiterated his opposition to cameras in the court. “If I really thought it would educate the American people, I would be all for it,” he said. But Scalia doesn’t think that would happen; most of the American public would only see 15-30 second takeouts from the argument that are uncharacteristic of the debate. Televised images carry a much greater impact than selected written quotes, or audio that is released at the end of the week, he said. The full interview was to air at 8 p.m. Sunday on C-SPAN’s Q&A.