If the DeVoses expected a “return on our investment” in the Madison Center, as Betsy had put it, they got one in the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. It “was really Jim [Bopp]’s brainchild,” Richard L. Hasen, an expert on election law at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles told The New York Times. “He has manufactured these cases to present certain questions to the Supreme Court in a certain order and achieve a certain result,” said Hasen. “He is a litigation machine.” Bopp agreed. “We had a 10-year plan to take all this down,” he told the Times. “And if we do it right, I think we can
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