Sidebar - Justice John Paul Stevens Voices Frustration With Recent Decisions of Supreme Court - Series - NYTimes.com

In its recent opinion Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Supreme Court reversed decades of precedent and opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate spending in the political arena.

But what is really rich, is what Justice Stevens had to say about it:

In his dissent, Justice Stevens said no principle required overruling two major campaign finance precedents. �The only relevant thing that has changed since� those two decisions, he wrote, �is the composition of this court.�

�While American democracy is imperfect,� he wrote, �few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.�