Jan LaRue with the American Thinker defends Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito in this essay about the Court's ruling in Citizens United v. FEC:

"Employing the same "scare tactics" and distortions he condemns his critics for allegedly using, Obama wrongly accused the majority of reversing "a century of law" that could allow our elections to be "bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities."

Not even close. The law banning spending by foreign corporations in our elections wasn't even at issue. The Court reversed a ten-year-old ruling that had allowed political speech to be banned based on the speaker's corporate identity.

The "Free Speech Five" endured Obama's displeasure for actually taking the First Amendment at its word: "Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech." They upheld freedom of speech, the kind of speech the Framers of the Constitution intended to protect -- political speech, and not pornography."