Citizens United v Fec

Paul Blumenthal

Corporate Personhood Cuts Both Ways

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.03.2012

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WASHINGTON -- Progressive activists angered by the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission allowing corporations...

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Dan Froomkin

Don't Blame The Supreme Court For Citizens United

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 03.24.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The two most controversial campaign financing practices of the post-Citizens United era aren’t actually the Supreme Court’s fault. ...

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Citizens Overturned: New Mexico Reclaims Its Rights!

Eric Griego | Posted 04.15.2012

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Eric Griego

The Citizens United decision was more than just a blow to democracy. It was a blow to states' rights. Now states are scrambling to overturn the ruling and put their own campaign finance laws back in place.

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Presidential super PACs raise $49 million through December

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 04.03.2012

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The Center for Public Integrity

By John Dunbar, iWatch NewsOutside groups that funded numerous attack ads in the GOP primaries collected more than $49 million in donations in 2011,...

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The Future of American Democracy

Rep. Dennis Kucinich | Posted 03.22.2012

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Rep. Dennis Kucinich

This is not a progressive issue or a conservative issue. This is not a Tea Party issue or a liberal issue. This is an American issue. Money is destroying our politics and our political system. The signs are everywhere.

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Pity Poor Newt Gingrich

Robert Weissman | Posted 03.05.2012

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Robert Weissman

Pity poor Newt Gingrich. Alright, I admit it's hard to muster much pity for Gingrich. Still, he now stands as not the first, but the most recent, pr...

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Beggars Free Speech

Jeff Danziger | Posted 02.28.2012

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Jeff Danziger

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Corporate Personhood on Trial

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 02.11.2012

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Lisa Kaas Boyle

A corporation is a business structure for individuals to run a business and to share in profits and losses. The rights and responsibilities of a corporation are independent and distinct from the people who own or invest in them.

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Occupy Corporate Political Spending

Jack Ucciferri | Posted 12.20.2011

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Jack Ucciferri

While corporations are legally recognized "persons," the reality is that public corporations are vast, ungainly amalgamations of people and institutions. And their political influence is eating away at the fabric of our Republic with increasingly greedy mouthfuls.

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New And Improved! The U.S. Corporate Charter

Johnny McNulty | Posted 11.30.2011

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Johnny McNulty

2011-09-30-comedypost.jpgOur new Corporate-American brethren have demanded a new Constitution by the end of the week, and Congress (ever responsive to the needs of their best citizens) turned it around in less than a day.

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Mike Sacks

Justice John Paul Stevens Talks Death Penalty, Citizens United, New Memoir

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 11.27.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens sat in his chambers Monday afternoon as his former colleagues -- and his successor, Justice Elen...

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Corporations Are a Mitt's Best Friend

Michael Sigman | Posted 10.14.2011

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Michael Sigman

Mitt Romney's appropriation of "friend" and the equivalence of "corporations" and "people" reflect the increasingly money-driven, technological dehumanization of what passes for American democracy in 2011.

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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Wonderland

Robert Weissman | Posted 07.10.2011

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Robert Weissman

It's a good rule of thumb: If the U.S. Chamber of Commerce -- the trade association for large corporations -- is whipped up about something, there's p...

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Amanda Terkel

Russ Feingold Launches New Project: 'Progressives United'

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- When some senators retire, they decide to take lucrative lobbying jobs. Others go straight to Wall Street. But Wisconsin Democrat Russ ...

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How to Talk About Citizens United

Ryan Clayton | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ryan Clayton

You probably already know most of the story of Citizens United and know that it's a bad thing for our democracy. The question is how to talk about Citizens United in a way that convinces other people to realize this too.

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The Fallacies of the Citizens United Decision

Robert Weissman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Weissman

Compare: Justice Kennedy, majority decision in Citizens United, January 21, 2010: With the advent of the Internet, prompt disclosure of expenditures...

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Amanda Terkel

Supreme Court Takes Aim, Yet Again, At Campaign Finance Laws

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed to hear a free speech challenge to Arizona's Clean Elections Law on Monday, a case that campaign finance reform...

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Polls, Research Show Dems Can Win Talking Trade (GOP too)

Lori Wallach | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lori Wallach

Recent polling shows that anger about U.S. job-offshoring and "free trade" has become a powerful election issue nationwide - across stunningly diverse...

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In The Public Interest : Money Changes Everything

Janet Domenitz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Janet Domenitz

It's a good bet that Cyndi Lauper was not anticipating the U.S. Supreme Court's actions when she sang "Money Changes Everything" back in 1984. But th...

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Monahan Brothers' Cross-Country Walk to Overturn 'Corporate Personhood'

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michele Swenson

On Monday, two brothers from Minnesota, Robin and Laird Monahan, made a detour to Denver on their cross-country walk to encourage people to recl...

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Obama Will Fight For New Campaign Finance Rules To Counter Citizens United

AP | DARLENE SUPERVILLE | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama on Saturday pressed Congress for swift action on measures to restrict political advertising by corporations ...

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The Unintended Benefits of Corporate Free Speech

Ronald J. Colombo | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ronald J. Colombo

By treating business corporations like citizens, the Supreme Court may have unwittingly encouraged business corporations to act more like citizens. And that would be a good thing.

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Citizens Unite

Lawrence Lessig | Posted 05.25.2011

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Lawrence Lessig

Representatives must remain dependent upon citizens, not upon special interests, and the Supreme Court has made that practically impossible. Only an amendment can reverse this now.

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Restoring Democracy After Citizens United

Daniel J. H. Greenwood | Posted 05.25.2011

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Daniel J. H. Greenwood

All that's required to fix the United Citizens decision is a statute that demands that politically active corporations be what Justice Kennedy myth claims they are: associations of citizens.

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FREE FOR ALL: Supreme Court Opens Floodgates On LA Election Spending

LA Daily | Posted 05.25.2011

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The L.A. Ethics Commission announced today that due to the ruling in the Citizens United case, it will no longer enforce a 2001 ordinance that banned ...

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