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The Citizens United ruling represented a turning point on campaign finance, allowing unlimited election spending by corporations and labor unions, and setting the stage for Speechnow.org v. FEC (2010), which authorized the creation of Super PACs, and McCutcheon v. FEC (2014), which struck down other campaign finance restrictions.
This is a list of all the United States Supreme Court cases from volume 558 of the United States ... Citizens United v. FEC: 558 U.S. 310: 2009: ... additional terms ...
The amendment was proposed in response to the implications presented in the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010), a U.S. constitutional law case concerning the regulation of independent political expenditures by corporations, which the nonprofit organization Citizens United challenged on the ...
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 ...
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.
The Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission transformed US elections, opening the floodgates to groups like FF PAC, which were allowed to accept ...
This article is extremely well-balanced, especially with regards to the public reaction following Citizens United. The article included statements from those who supported and opposed the decision as well as presented the opinions of businesses, the public (through polls), well-known individuals, those who held governmental positions at the time.