Justice Kennedy’s Non-Comment to Lee Fang on How Citizens United Has Worked Out

Lee Fang buttonholed the Justice at what sounds like a conference, and you can listen to the brief exchange (before Fang asks if he’s being detained):

Fang: You wrote the Citizens United decision and the crux of that decision was that independent expenditures are indeed independent and not coordinated with the candidate. But as we’ve seen in the last six years, that has not been the case, millions of dollars has been coordinated between…

J. Kennedy: Well I don’t comment….That’s for the bar and the lower bench to figure out.

Fang:Do you think the case should be revisited?

J. Kennedy: I don’t comment on my cases. They say what they say.

Fang: I’m sorry?

J. Kennedy: “Hi Dorothy, how are you?”

Update: As a reminder, Justice Kennedy has commented in the past on how Citizens United has been going.

Second update: Fang writes this was on a visit by Justice Kennedy to the courthouse in Sacramento.

 

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