Citizens United Gave Corporations

The 200-Year Legal Struggle That Led to Citizens United

More than 100 years ago, at the height of the last Gilded Age, Congress passed its first law prohibiting corporations from spending money to ...

Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Spending Limit - The New York Times

A bitterly divided Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections.

Citizens United and Corporate Speech - Case - Faculty & Research

Democrats expected a three-way contest in their party between Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, Senator (and former first lady) Hillary Clinton of New York, and ...

Citizens United | U.S. House of Representatives

There are two things I hear, time and again, from voters across Massachusetts, whether they're Democrats, Republicans, or Independents: Washington is ...

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.

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission - Khan Academy

The Supreme Court case, Citizens United versus Federal Election Commission, ruled that political spending by corporations and unions is protected under the ...

Campaign Finance after Citizens United - Scholarship Archive

1 The Court's invalidation of a sixty-year-old federal law-and comparable laws in two dozen states2-banning corporations from engaging in independent spending ...

Citizens United Unfair to One Million Corporations - Blue Avocado

The Citizens United decision not only made corporations people when it came to elections, it fixed some flaws in the now-overturned McCain-Feingold Act that ...

Supreme Court decisions that paved the way for big money in politics

Find out how Supreme Court decisions like Citizens United and Buckley v. Valeo caused our campaign finance problems and what we can do about it.

Citizens United: People Are Corporations - FIU Law

As recently as the 2016 presidential election, candidates pledged to introduce a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United ...

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What's Wrong with Citizens United v. FEC - Daniel J.H. Greenwood

The basic problem with Citizens United is that it turns the First Amendment on its head, threatening core values of democracy, republican self-government, ...

5 surprising consequences from a decade of Citizens United - Fortune

Ten years ago, the Supreme Court issued a bombshell decision that tore up rules limiting what corporations could spend on political ...

Citizens United v. FEC: Facts and Falsehoods

The US Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission struck down a provision of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002.

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 ...

Newsflash! Citizens United has been good for campaign finance ...

The Citizens United court overruled the 1990 decision in Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce in which it had previously upheld a corporate (and union) ban.

U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the Citizens United case

The Supreme Court overturned a six decade-long prohibition against spending corporate and union treasury money to directly campaign for or against federal ...

US Supreme Court Reversed Some Precedents in Citizens United ...

The Court upheld the 1971 Federal Election. Campaign Act's ban on direct contributions to candidates and parties by corporations and unions. It ...

Citizens United Against Citizens United - Earth Island Institute

In a single ruling, political corruption was legalized. Then the courts decriminalized the laundering of political money. In March 2010, the US Court of Appeals ...

Corporate Personhood: What It Means and How It Has Evolved

The Court explained that corporations are associations of individuals and thus entitled to free speech rights. However, the concept of corporate ...