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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…

Citizens United v. FEC after Five Years: The Story Behind the Lawsuit (Video)

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January 27, 2015   •  By Joe Trotter   •  , ,

David M. Drucker, Senior Congressional Correspondent, The Washington Examiner (Interviewer) Michael Boos, General Counsel, Citizens United

Citizens United v. FEC after Five Years: The Impact on Parties in the Age of Citizens United: Are Changes Needed? (Video)

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January 27, 2015   •  By Joe Trotter   •  , ,

Peter Overby, NPR News (Interviewer) Joel Gora, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School Neil Reiff, Founding Partner, Sandler Reiff Lamb Rosenstein & Birkenstock, P.C. ...

Contribution Limits Increase in 15 States and Federally after Citizens United
January 21, 2015   •  By Matt Nese   •  , ,

Five years after the 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC, which struck down a federal law on First Amendment grounds banning corporations ...

A Response to Ken Vogel

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January 15, 2015   •  By Zac Morgan   •  ,

This Wednesday, January 21st, CCP will be holding a conference on Citizens United v. FEC’s fifth anniversary. As we all know, Citizens United struck ...

The Udall Amendment: A Briefing Book
September 9, 2014   •  By Matt Nese   •  , ,

Senator Tom Udall’s (NM) S.J. Res. 19 would revoke nearly four decades of campaign finance jurisprudence from the Supreme Court and greatly reduce the quantity ...

What Sen. Schumer and Rep. Deutch Get Wrong About the Senate’s Constitutional Amendment Proposal

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July 17, 2014   •  By Scott Blackburn   •  

On Tuesday, Sen. Chuck Schumer and Rep. Ted Deutch penned an opinion piece in Politico Magazine purporting to respond to criticisms of a Democratic ...

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Citizens United

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January 21, 2014   •  By Joe Trotter   •  

Today the Center for Competitive Politics marked the fourth anniversary of the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission ruling by releasing a video about ...

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Citizens United (Video)

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January 20, 2014   •  By IFS Staff   •  ,

The video examines five common misconceptions about the Citizens United decision that many critics of the decision tend to gloss over, such as the ...

Citizens United, States Divided: An Empirical Analysis of Independent Political Spending
January 1, 2014   •  By Matthew McIntyre   •  ,

What effect has Citizens United v. FEC had on independent spending in American politics? Previous attempts to answer this question have focused solely on federal elections, ...

Issue Analysis No. 7: Do Limits on Corporate and Union Giving to Candidates Lead to “Good” Government?
November 1, 2013   •  By Matt Nese   •  , ,

Since the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC, which freed corporations and labor unions to finance independent expenditures in support of federal candidates, the ...

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