On a campaign stop in New Hampshire, Hillary Clinton talked to state lawmakers about how to get people more invested in the issue of climate change and strategies for reining in money in campaigns.
Alex Seitz-Wald reports:
“I give Obama and the EPA enormous credit for going as far as he can go as a president using executive and regulatory action,” she said, according to pool reporter Annie Karni of Politico. “We have to actually convince more Americans that this is in their interest. You know, whatever it takes. I happen to think it’s a real threat. I think the science is pretty clear. The deniers, Lord knows, some day people are going to read about them and wonder, who were these people? And how did they say this?”
Clinton also talked quite candidly about how she might try to turn back
Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruling that opened the door to unlimited and, in some cases, undisclosed cash in U.S. elections.
“What good does it do to disclose if somebody’s about to spend $100 million to promote their own interest and to defeat candidates who would stand up against them? What good does that do?” Clinton said.
If elected president, Clinton said she would try to re-make the Supreme Court so it would overturn the controversial 2010 Citizens United decision, which paved the way for super PACs and other outside groups to pour money into politics. “If I can get enough appointments as president, to put different people on the court, maybe that would work,” she said. But she added that retired justice John Paul Stevens told her the only way he thought real reform could happen would be through a constitutional amendment.
The remarks represent an expansion of Clinton's thinking since she announced last week that
reforming campaign finance laws would be one of four key planks in her campaign.