SCOTUS: Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

In perhaps the most significant constitutional case of the year, the Supreme Court struck down 2 U.S.C. §441b, a federal statute which prohibits corporations from making independent expenditures from their general funds to finance speech expressly advocating the election or

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Citizens United: A Threat to Democracy or Liberal Ideology?

In his State of the Union Address, President Barack Obama declared, “Last week, the Supreme Court reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests—including foreign corporations—to spend without limit in our elections. Well, I don’t think

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