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Undermining our system

Undermining our system

Because of what came later — Donald Trump's refusal to say whether he'd accept the results of the election — Hillary Clinton's similar, if somewhat less incendiary, remark about our system's legitimacy went nearly unnoticed. Right out of the box, responding to a query from Chris Wallace about the Supreme Court (and let me add my voice to the general hosannas for his mature and professional conduct), Clinton implied that a Supreme Court decision she disliked, Citizens United v. FEC, "undermined

Because of what came later — Donald Trump's refusal to say whether he'd accept the results of the election — Hillary Clinton's similar, if somewhat less incendiary, remark about our system's legitimacy went nearly unnoticed. Right out of the box, responding to a query from Chris Wallace about the Supreme Court (and let me add my voice to the general hosannas for his mature and professional conduct), Clinton implied that a Supreme Court decision she disliked, Citizens United v. FEC, "undermined…