Peter Welch: “Citizens United opened the door to unlimited spending.”

“And I believe there's a trail of decisions that have led to what I regard as a very remarkable and troubling moment about the erosion of citizen power, about the erosion of legislative power, and about the expansion of executive power. In 2010, Citizens United opened the door to unlimited spending. And now literally billionaires spend billions of dollars affecting our elections, really squeezing out access for everyday citizens, Republican and Democrat. By the way, Shelby county versus Holder, it removed the oversight of potentially discriminatory state voting restrictions.” (02:20–02:24)

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