Citizens United and the States

Citizens United Explained | Brennan Center for Justice

The 2010 Supreme Court decision further tilted political influence toward wealthy donors and corporations.

The Court ruled that the federal government may not prohibit direct corporate and union spending on advertising for candidates' elections. While the ruling does ...

Legal | Citizens United v. FEC

On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission overruling an earlier decision.

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 ...

How Does the Citizens United Decision Still Affect Us in 2024?

In the 2024 election, the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United will likely enable record-breaking amounts of campaign spending.

Has Citizens United decision undermined democracy?

Federal Election Commission, which determined the first amendment prohibits the government from restricting corporations from spending money on ...

13 Years of Impact: The Long Reach of 'Citizens United'

The Decision The U.S. Supreme Court released its landmark opinion in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission on Jan. 21,...

Citizens United Gave Corporations, But Not Their Boards, the ...

Citizens United recognized a right of corporations to spend corporate funds in candidate elections. But according to the Supreme Court, that right to expend ...

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010)

“No sufficient governmental interest justifies limits on the political speech of nonprofit or for-profit corporations.” Justice Anthony Kennedy (Majority) ...

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.

Citizens United: Robbing America of Its Democratic Idealism

The 2010 Citizens United ruling has been widely reviewed from the lens of legal precedent. In this critique, the author suggests the need to examine the ...

Citizens United | U.S. House of Representatives

... states and the federal government to pass laws that regulate spending in elections, reversing the concentration of political influence held by the ...

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission - Britannica

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, case in which the U.S. Supreme Court on January 21, 2010, ruled that laws preventing ...

The Answer to Citizens United Is Becoming Reality

New York State's pathbreaking new Public Campaign Finance Program is now in effect for the 2024 election cycle. It's the strongest response enacted anywhere in ...

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission | Oyez

A case in which the Court held that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in elections cannot be limited under the First Amendment.

"Citizens United, States Divided: An Empirical Analysis of ...

What effect has Citizens United v. FEC had on independent spending in American politics? Previous attempts to answer this question have focused solely on ...

Citizens United - Common Cause

Unfortunately, over the last few decades the U.S. Supreme Court has made several bad decisions when it comes to money in politics. Most notably, ...

What Is Citizens United? - RepresentUs

“Citizens United” is shorthand for a landmark 2010 Supreme Court case – Citizens United v. FEC – that changed the face of campaign finance and money in ...

Citizens United | Communications Workers of America

Corporate vs. Union Political Spending In its January 2010 Citizens United decision, the U.S. Supreme Court turned election and political spending upside ...

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, ...