updated Tue. July 16, 2024
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WAOW
March 29, 2018
A referendum to disallow corporations from funding political candidates is on the spring ballot in Marshfield and Wittenburg. A U.S. Supreme Court ruling called Citizens United opened the door to a new way to pay for political campaigns. Critics say it makes the playing field unfair for some candidates.
La Crosse Tribune
March 29, 2018
La Crosse United to Amend is a local branch of a statewide nonpartisan organization dedicated to overturning the 2010 Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission decision by U.S. Supreme Court, which ruled that corporations can spend an unlimited amount of money to support a politician or party,Ãâà...
New Republic
March 29, 2018
Yet the beermakers finally had their day in 2010, when the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Citizens United. In a reversal of last century's common sense, the Court found that corporations did have free speech rights after all and that campaign finance laws placed an intolerable restriction on those rights.
Salon
March 28, 2018
"When you take 3,140,167 — the number of students enrolled in Florida schools — and divide by $3,303,355 — the amount of money Marco Rubio has received from the National Rifle Association, it comes out to a dollar and five cents," survivor Sarah Chadwick explained during her speech. "Is that allÃâà...
Fresno Bee
March 28, 2018
Why do we allow corporations like the NRA to sell automatic weapons to anyone, even children? Why do we permit corporations to fund candidates, like Rep. Devin Nunes, to support that kind of policy? The answer is simple – Citizens United. Citizens United was passed by the Supreme Court and rulesÃâà...
The Columbus Dispatch
March 27, 2018
When it comes to protecting citizens' right to equal representation in our government, the U.S. Supreme Court has a history of getting it wrong. In Dred Scott v. Sanford, the court ruled that African Americans are property. In Minor v. Happersett, the court held that the Constitution did not grant anyone the rightÃâà...
Freepress Online
March 1, 2018
For most Americans, the current debate stems from the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. In January 2010, a 5-to-4 majority invalidated provisions of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform (McCain-Feingold) Act of 2002 that prohibited certain types of “electioneering communications” (basically ads) byÃâà...
Capital Research Center
March 1, 2018
Capital Research Center is proud to report our February 28 panel, Political and Policy-Oriented Giving in the Post-Citizens United World, was a great success! CRC senior fellow Michael Hartmann shared his research on how the much-maligned 2010 U.S. Supreme Court Citizens United decision spurredÃâà...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
February 28, 2018
We've got to diminish the power that agenda-driven big money has over the people we elect by pushing for campaign finance reform, including reversing the catastrophic U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision that started this ball of phlegm rolling. We've got to take our once-collaborative andÃâà...
Newsweek
February 21, 2018
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman demands out-of-state charities disclose all donors for his inspection. He does not demand this of all charities, only those he decides warrant his special scrutiny. Schneiderman garnered national attention for his campaign to use the powers of his office toÃâà...
ABA Journal
February 16, 2018
A federal appeals court has rejected a First Amendment challenge to New York regulations requiring charities to disclose their donors. The New York-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday in a suit by Citizens United, the group that successfully challenged restrictions on corporate politicalÃâà...
Law360
February 15, 2018
Law360 (February 15, 2018, 9:00 PM EST) -- A Second Circuit panel on Thursday upheld a New York state law forcing tax-exempt nonprofits to disclose their donors, nixing claims from conservative advocacy group Citizens United that the rule caused a “climate of fear” that could unconstitutionally stifle contributions.
Door County Pulse
February 15, 2018
The Door County Board of Supervisors will consider a resolution calling for a non-binding state referendum seeking to overturn the 2010 Citizens United U.S. Supreme Court decision concerning campaign finance at its meeting on Feb. 27. The Legislative Committee forwarded the resolution on Feb.
Capital Research Center
February 13, 2018
January 2010's much-maligned U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United held it unconstitutional to limit donations supporting independent political expenditures, provided that they are not formally coordinated with any particular candidate's campaign. Citizens United and related cases spurredÃâà...
The Hill
December 31, 1999
If you like Michael Wolff's book, “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House,” be thankful for the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision. The right to publish this book was guaranteed by the Court's controversial, yet sound ruling. Recall the case involved a nonprofit corporation named Citizens UnitedÃâà...
