“The line is blurry between the exercise of constitutional rights and the commission of a crime.  That line needs to be straightened and brightened.”  It needs to be straightened with a vision of what the Supreme Court recognized in Caperton v. Massey Coal, but then ignored in Citizens United-whether under a realistic appraisal of psychological tendencies and human weakness there is such a risk of actual bias or prejudgment by an official as a result of campaign contributions that the practice must be forbidden if the guarantee of due process is to be adequately implemented.”

 “The great threat to our republic today comes now from the hidden