Citizens United is a nonprofit corporation and conservative advocacy group that successfully sued the Federal Election Commission in 2008, claiming its campaign finance rules represented unconstitutional restrictions on the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech. The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark...
Majority of Americans think money plays too big a role in politics Judge sets September deadline on Clinton office records Sanders takes dead aim on Citizens United ruling Citizens United files new lawsuit for Clinton records Citizens United to honor 'Duck Dynasty' star with free speech award ...
Within hours of its announcement, the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. FEC came under attack from progressive groups. Among these groups were some of America's largest labor unions-even though the decision applies equally to unions and forprofit corporations. The reason is clear: ...
The fundamental questions of whether money was speech and whether corporations were afforded First Amendment protections would be answered by the Supreme Court.In more than a dozen cases dating as far as 1952, the Supreme Court has repeatedly held that corporations are entitled to protection under ...
As such, given that money is speech, these individuals whose money is being used without their notice or consent would continue to compelled to speak. To remedy this result, disclosure and consent should travel down the full intermediation chain where ultimate investors can see and sanction or ...
“endanger the very commerce that enriches us all.” Even the chief justice of the United States, John Roberts, apparently is being“intimidated” (Kathleen Parker),“pressured” (George Will) and “threatened” (Rick Garnett) by that most powerful force in America (law professor and New ...
January 21, 2010 –a day that’ll live in infamy.In theirCitizens Unitedruling, theSupreme Court opened the floodgates for dark money,givingbig moneyevenmore power (Lau,2019).Deep-pocketdonorsfundcampaignsthrough super PACs,whichtake and spend almost unlimited funds,oftenfrom anonymous sources(Lau...
Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding her confirmation as a Supreme Court Justice, Solicitor General Elena Kagan summed up in a cool and even-handed manner the arguments she and her opponents in the Citizens United v. FEC case had made to the Supreme Court. The “stron...
In Citizens United vs. FEC, the Supreme Court struck down a Federal statute banning direct corporate expenditures on political campaigns. The decision has been widely criticized and praised as a matter of First Amendment law. But it is also interesting a
Part III discusses measures to limit the role of money in politics and the problem that, in a market society, speech is always, to some extent, for sale. 展开 关键词: Citizens United political speech corporate speech democracy truthiness post factual corporate personhood ...