Citizens United Overreach

Overturn Citizens United - Wisconsin Democracy Campaign

HELP OVERTURN CITIZENS UNITED and BUILD ELECTION CAMPAIGN INTEGRITY Join the national movement to help overturn the disastrous U.S. Supreme Court ruling in ...

Citizens United v. FEC - Wikipedia

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), is a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States regarding campaign ...

Citizens United decision weathers 10 years of controversy - The Hill

A decade after the Supreme Court's landmark Citizens United decision, which ushered in the era of super PACs and unlimited donations, the fight over the ...

Citizens United shaped the decade in countless outrageous ways.

We've seen an explosion of outside, often-undisclosed money in elections, candidates skirting campaign finance rules by having shadow “super ...

Citizens United changed U.S. politics, not in the way people expected

Protesters gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court in July as Senate Democrats met to to discuss a constitutional amendment to overturn the ruling ...

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission - SCOTUSblog

Political spending is a form of protected speech under the First Amendment, and the government may not keep corporations or unions from spending money.

The Impact of Citizens United on Congressional Elections

In a 5-4 decision which was announced on January 21, the Court ruled that the federal government may not ban independent political spending by corporations in ...

Before Citizens United: The Origin of Campaign Finance Reform ...

While the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court created major shifts in campaign contributions and spending, a much earlier decision ...

Study: Most Americans want to kill 'Citizens United' with ...

Three-fourths of survey respondents — including 66 percent of Republicans and 85 percent of Democrats — back a constitutional amendment ...

The Reform Law Needed to Counter Citizens United: H.R. 1

The flood of big money in politics unleashed by the Supreme Court keeps growing. Public campaign financing offers candidates a way to run ...

Sarah Haan Presents on CAP Panel Exploring Citizens United

Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Sarah Haan served as a panelist on May 7 during a panel discussion hosted by the Center for American ...

CITIZENS UNITED v. FEDERAL ELECTION COMM'N

Federal law prohibits corporations and unions from using their general treasury funds to make independent expenditures for speech defined as an “electioneering ...

Citizens United Made My Career: I Wish It Had Never Happened | ACS

Looking back at the decade between 2010 and 2020, it's clear Citizens United paved the way for corporations to damage democracy and ...

How Citizens United Has Changed Politics in 5 Years

Federal Election Commission decision, the court opened the campaign spending floodgates. The justices' ruling said political spending is ...

Citizens United v. FEC | 558 U.S. 310 (2010)

Citizens United v. Federal Election Comm'n: Limiting independent expenditures on political campaigns by groups such as corporations, labor unions, ...

Citizens United After 10 Years: More Speech, Better Democracy

On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court struck down a federal law that prohibited corporations and labor unions from independently voicing their ...

Corporations are Not People: Frequently Asked Questions About ...

An amendment to the US Constitution to overturn Citizens United offers the chance for long-term solutions to problems inherent in treating corporations like ...

Citizens United, campaign finance, and the First Amendment

Let's begin by noting that there are lots of ways that money is involved in politics, including donations to candidates, political parties, and political ...

Citizens United and Conservative Judicial Activism

Federal. Election Commission' provides an interesting entry point for a discussion of conservative theories of constitutional interpretation. In ...

The ACLU and Citizens United | American Civil Liberties Union

In Citizens United, the Supreme Court ruled that independent political expenditures by corporations and unions are protected under the First Amendment.