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Citizens United: Affirming Government Can’t Ban Speech
January 1, 2018  •  By IFS Staff  •    •  

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission is a 2010 Supreme Court decision that restored some of the First Amendment rights of corporations and unions that had been restricted under the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002. The case was brought by Citizens United, a nonprofit organization that wished to advertise and distribute a documentary film critical of Hillary Clinton in…

FEC Comments March 7th, 2012
March 8, 2012   •  By Joe Trotter   •  , , ,

CCP submitted comments to the FEC regarding the Citizens United decision. 

The (Non-)Effects of Campaign Finance Spending Bans on Macro Political Outcomes: Evidence From the States
February 20, 2012   •  By Matt Nese   •  , ,

This paper seeks to understand the effect of campaign finance laws on electoral and policy outcomes. Spurred by the recent Supreme Court decision, Citizens United ...

This weekend in campaign finance
January 17, 2012   •  By Joe Trotter   •  , ,

With the second anniversary of the Citizens United decision coming up this Saturday, reform groups are  pulling out all the stops to protest the decision. ...

Activist Investing in Post-Citizens United America
November 18, 2011   •  By Allen Dickerson   •  , ,

In the wake of last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the scope of political speech protected under the ...

An Analysis of Corporate Governance Reforms Proposed in Response to Citizens United to Limit Corporate Political Spending
October 20, 2011   •  By Joe Trotter   •  , ,

In the much discussed Citizens United v. FEC case, the Supreme Court overturned existing prohibitions on corporate political expenditures and recognized that outright prohibitions on ...

Activist Investing In Post-Citizens United America
October 20, 2011   •  By Joe Trotter   •  , ,

In the wake of last year’s U.S. Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC, the scope of political speech protected under the First Amendment ...

Comments of CCP Legal Director Allen Dickerson on the James Madison Center for Free Speech’s Petition to the FEC
August 31, 2011   •  By Allen Dickerson   •  , ,

CCP believes that the James Madison Center for Free Speech's petition properly aligns FEC regulations with the understanding of the First Amendment recently articulated ...

So What if Corporations Aren’t People?
June 1, 2011   •  By Luke Wachob   •  , ,

Corporate participation in public discourse has long been a controversial issue, one that was reignited by the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC. Much ...

The First Amendment…United
June 1, 2011   •  By IFS staff   •  , ,

Perhaps the most important thing that the Supreme Court does is to protect those individual rights and enforce those government limits that comprise our civil liberties. ...

The Constitutional Right That Big Corporations Should Have But Do Not Want
May 1, 2011   •  By Luke Wachob   •  ,

The most controversial Supreme Court decision of the 2009– 2010 Supreme Court Term was, without question, Citizens United v. FEC.1 The decision has captured the public ...

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