During his State of the Union Address, President Obama asserted:
With all due deference to separation of powers, last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of law that, I believe, will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections.
Justice Alito can be seen on the left, shaking his head and mouthing what appears to be "not true." Perhaps Obama's cheap shot at the High Court is rooted in the same concern expressed by pro-abortion radicals.
Jay Anderson comments:
This constitutional power play and effort at intimidation by Obama (with the full Court present at the SOTU speech) has to be about the most graceless and classless thing the man has done since taking office (although his mocking of the notion that morality might place some limits on scientific research during his speech announcing that he would fund ESCR ranks right up there).
Read more at Politico.
First of all the law says corporations have no limit, Alito said to Obama isn't telling the truth. The supreme court did rule there is no limit on speech by corporations. There is no law that dictates what constitutes a foreign or domestic corporation, on a detailed level, if 49% of an American company is foreign owned is it american or how about 5%. I saw this article on this issue that details the nasty and why obama may be right
http://wendygdphillips.wordpress.com/2010/01/27/citizens-united-v-fec-%E2%80%93-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/