Much is being made of the president's peroration on the SCOTUS ruling last week permitting corporations to freely speak out on political matters in federal elections. As he spoke , attacking the Court, whose members were present, observers saw Justice Alito shake his head and say to himself "not true." And he was right. President and purported constitutional scholar Obama was once again showing he has no idea about the law. As Professor Bradley A. Smith observes in the National Review Online :Tonight the president engaged in demogoguery of the worst kind, when he claimed that last week's Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC, "open[ed] the floodgates for special interests - including foreign corporations - to spend without limit in our elections. Well I don't think American elections should be bankrolled by America's most powerful interests, or worse, by foreign entities." The president's statement is false. The Court held that 2 U.S.C. Section 441a,...(Read Full Post)