Topic: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
Citizens United is a conservative, non-profit advocacy group whose stated mission, according to the organization's the official website, is " The majority opinion, written by Justice Anthony Kennedy , wiped out many of the provisions of the 2002 McCain-Feingold bill, and opposes ...
As the midterm election cycle drew to a close, the flurry of media attention around whether the election was or was not a ? The Supreme Court has indicated its support for such corporate expenditures, particularly through its holding in the Citizens ...
The Cato Institute has a blog post from Michael F. Cannon entitled, " A link Cannon provides in his post leads to a primer on campaign finance reform by Cato chairman Robert Levy. For example, under the former rules of the McCain-Feingold ...
As American companies and unions mobilize to organize Political Action Committees (PACs) with an eye to the upcoming mid-term elections, it is worth taking a step back to ask: The court found 5-4 that the Federal Election Commission (FEC) regulations created by ...
State responses to Supreme Court's election spending ruling range from defiant to confused The U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of decades-old campaign spending limits gives states scant time to face an election-year dilemma:FEC, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that the government could not ...
Wednesday, the Supreme Court will hear a rare, out-of-term rehearing of a case justices set aside from last term that could flip campaign finance law on its head. If the justices ultimately decide to rule against precedent, says Rick Hasen, an election ...
I doubt the CEOs of the various corporations in which I own stock see eye-to-eye on many political questions. In Citizens United, a momentous case that is scheduled for re-argument on Sept. 9, the Supreme Court may hold that a corporation has ...
Next week, on Sept. 9, 2009, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument in the contentious case of Citizens United v. The issue at hand is whether Citizens United has run afoul of McCain-Feingold--grandly entitled the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA)--because it ...
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