President Obama would support a constitutional amendment to ban superPACs such as the one he just approved to support his own campaign, his spokesman said today, adding that the president will continue to attack superPACs.
“The president’s views of the influence of the Citizens United case haven’t changed,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said during today’s press briefing. “He expressed them a few days ago and will continue to express them.”
“The campaign has made clear that they cannot engage in this campaign, they cannot compete effectively, if they play by two sets of rules,” Carney said. He also noted the importance of superPACs in the Republican primary, as he suggested that Republicans are more enthusiastic about having their superPACs than Obama is about his. “I think that distinction will be clear to voters who care about this issue,” Carney said.
Carney reminded reporters of the president’s in-person rebuke of the Supreme Court in the 2010 State of the Union, and said that Obama would support a constitutional amendment nullifying the effect of the Citizens United decision. “If that is what it would require, he would support that,” Carney said.
