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Citizens United v Federal Election Commission

Why Corporations Shouldn't Play in Elections

Adam Lioz | Posted 11.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Money in Politics, Citizens United, Corporations, Campaign Finance Reform, Campaign Finance, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Politics News
Adam Lioz

Allowing huge corporations or wealthy tycoons to purchase political outcomes makes a mockery of the principle behind one person, one vote.

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History Will Judge

Andrew Reinbach | Posted 11.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Judicial Activism, US Supreme Court, Mccain-Feingold, Federal Election Commission, Right-Wing Extremism, Federal Campaign Reform, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Politics News
Andrew Reinbach

You have to wonder whether the Justices are in the service of powers determined to remake America to their advantage, or if they respect themselves and want to make good law.

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McCain Calls Out Chief Justice Roberts Over Campaign Finance Case

True Slant | Kate Klonick | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russ Feingold, John McCain, John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Sonia Sotomayor, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Politics News

Yesterday marked the first case in front of newly-minted Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and the Court spared no controversy. The case, Citizens United v. F...

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Court signals it may loosen campaign spending

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Russ Feingold, Bill Clinton, White House, John McCain, Congress, George W. Bush, Antonin Scalia, President Obama, Theodore Olson, Joe Biden, John Roberts, Mark Penn, Clarence Thomas, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Sonia Sotomayor, Hillary Clinton, Senate Confirmation Hearings, Anthony Kennedy, Elena Kagan, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday it may let businesses and unions spend freely to help their favored candidates in time for nex...

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Sotomayor Expected To Favor Campaign Finance Restrictions In Upcoming Case

Washington Independent | Daphne Eviatar | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Campaign Finance Reform, Sonia Sotomayor, Hillary the Movie, David Souter, Samuel Alito, John Roberts, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Politics News

The upcoming re-argument of the case of Citizens United v. FEC, challenging corporate contributions to the financing of Hillary: The Movie, is raising...

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Five Reasons Why Citizens United Is a Truly Momentous Case

Doug Kendall | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Constitution, Corporations, Campaign Finance, Citizens-United-v-Federal-Election-Commission, Politics News
Doug Kendall

The Supreme Court will break up its summer recess to hear arguments in Citizens United v. FEC, over Hillary: The Movie. You may sense something important is going on. If so, you're right.

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Supreme Court to Rule on Citizens United Case

Elliot Tarloff | Posted 07.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Law, Federal Election Commission, Wisconsin Right to Life II, Law Center, Supreme Court Cases, Citizens United, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Politics News
Elliot Tarloff

In recent cases, the Court has indicated that it will follow an approach that can best be characterized either as minimalism or as an incrementalist approach to ultimately transformative goals.

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