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The rise of dark money groups was aided by the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. (2008) and Citizens United v. FEC (2010). [4] In Citizens United, the Court ruled (by a 5–4 vote) that corporations and unions could spend unlimited amounts of money to advocate for or against political candidates. [14]
"The real problem with Citizens United: Campaign finance, dark money, and shadow parties" 97 Marquette Law Review (2014) 903. Hansen, Wendy L., Michael S. Rocca, and Brittany Leigh Ortiz. "The effects of Citizens United on corporate spending in the 2012 presidential election."
Shadow campaigns (or dark money) refers to spending meant to influence political outcomes where the source of the money is not publicly disclosed or is difficult to trace. [1] United States campaign finance law has been regulated by the Federal Election Commission since its creation in the wake of the Watergate Scandal in 1975, and in the years ...
Unlike Arizona, Ohio has done nothing to require dark money to be disclosed − even after its prominent scandal. Shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court decided Citizens United, then-state Sen. Jon ...
In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court invited an avalanche of dark money via its Citizens United ruling. The 5-4 court majority reversed decades of precedent in permitting corporations, unions and ...
In Citizens United, the high court laid out a clear and straightforward application of the First Amendment: You are entitled to speak your mind at your own expense about political candidates, so ...
Dark Money is a 2018 American documentary film directed by Kimberly Reed about the effects of corporate money and influence in the American political system. The film uses Reed's home state of Montana as a primary case study to advance a broader, national discussion on governance in an era of super PACs and Citizens United.
And as The Star’s Jonathan Shorman pointed out in his reporting, the bill would also leave untouched so-called “dark money” groups, which spend money on elections without disclosing their ...