Citizens UnitedProfessor Tamara Piety discusses the recent Citizen's United case on corporate free speech.Tamara PietyFaculty & Alumni Showcase Series
“Citizens United seeks to reassert the traditional American values of limited government, freedom of enterprise, strong families, and national sovereignty and security. Citizens United's goal is to restore the founding fathers' vision of a free nation, guided by the honesty, common sense, and goo...
This Article, however, takes a broader view of Citizens United to explore a possible silver lining for labor. It posits that, in articulating a wide-ranging vision of associations' free speech rights, the Court undermined the intellectual basis of a lengthy string of cases that has limited the...
” Not only were Citizens United’s narrower arguments “not sustainable under a fair reading of the statute,” but there was no principled way of removing Citizens United from the scope of the BCRA that would not itself prolong or contribute to “the substantial, nation-wide chilling effect ...
S. 374, 379; (2) throughout the litigation, Citizens United has asserted a claim that the FEC has violated its right to free speech; and (3) the parties cannot enter into a stipulation that prevents the Court from considering remedies necessary to resolve a claim that has been preserved....
This week’s Supreme Court ruling [Citizens United] that corporations are protected by “free speech” rights and can contribute enormous sums of money to influence elections is a de jure endorsement of the de facto dominance of corporations over our lives. Indeed, corporations are the new citiz...
Citizens United Decision Are Corporations People? Citizens United Impact Rise of the Super PACs Sources In Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission (FEC), the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 2010 that political spending is a form of free speech that’s protected under the First Amend...
Citizens United, as a victory for free speech, but critics warned it would distort democracy.A decade later, the actual impact of the court’s ruling has become clearer. It is now apparent that Citizens United has indeed altered the course of American politics and that critics’ fears have ...
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Plutocrats United - Hasen, Richard L - Yale University Press In Richard Hasen argues that both left and right avoid the key issue of the new Citizens United era: balancing political inequality with free speech.The... RL Hasen 被引量: 0发表: 0年 High Classroom Turnover: How Children Get...