John Paul Stevens Quotes
Money is property; it is not speech.
The majority of the Supreme Court has voted 5-4 that a corporation cannot be limited in the amount of money it spends on an election campaign as curtailing the money that is spend is tantamount to curtailing the amount of speech and spending money to elect a candidate is a form of political speech. Stevens made a major distinction between money and speech and challenged the logic that conflated the two. The nation was polarized on this issue, with liberals and conservatives on both sides of the question.
John Paul Stevens, U. S. Supreme Court Justice, Concurring Opinion, Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC, 528 U.S. 377, 2000
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The sense of the word affair is the general purpose, and Smith was referring to the fact when he investigated any proposed or implemented public scheme or law, there was an objective of someone obtaining money as a consequence. As journalists say in covering politics, “follow the money.”
John Paul Stevens was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1975 until his voluntary retirement in 2010. At the time of his retirement, he was the second-oldest-serving justice in the history of the court and the third-longest-serving justice. At the time of his death, he was the longest lived Supreme Court justice ever. His long tenure saw him write for the court on most issues of American law, including civil liberties, death penalty, government action and intellectual property. In cases involving presidents of the United States, he wrote for the court that they were to be held accountable under American law. A registered Republican when appointed who throughout his life identified as a conservative, Stevens was considered to have been on the liberal side of the court at the time of his retirement.
