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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 finance laws and free speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution .
Hawley’s bill would undo a big portion of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the 2010 Supreme Court decision that unleashed a flood of corporate spending to influence American ...
Every four years, we elect a new president to lead our nation. Also referred to as "the leader of the free world," this person is often judged and associated with how the economy is doing when ...
Citizens United is a conservative 501(c)(4) nonprofit organization in the United States founded in 1988. In 2010, the organization won a U.S. Supreme Court case known as Citizens United v. FEC , which struck down as unconstitutional a federal law prohibiting corporations and unions from making expenditures in connection with federal elections.
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 finance laws and free speech under the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution .
In December 2007, Citizens United v.Federal Election Commission. was filed at the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. A special three-judge panel (as specified in BCRA) sided with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) that under the McCain-Feingold Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, Hillary: The Movie could not be shown on television right before the 2008 Democratic primaries.
In the absence of Citizens United, then, the government's position was that it would be perfectly constitutional to prevent the publication or release—within two months of an election—of any ...