Politico: Year after ruling: Right gloats, left vows fight

Politico Reporter Kenneth P. Vogel covers the one-year anniversary of Citizens United v. FEC:

The first anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission was marked today in classically Washington fashion – with protests, press conferences, dueling panel discussions, and talk of a new effort by liberal groups to expose some of the conservative non-profits groups that took advantage of the ruling to spend millions of dollars on political ads.

Supporters of the decision did a low-key victory lap, praising the decision in panels, press releases and a slickly produced video featuring majestic orchestral music playing over clips of news footage from the GOP’s landslide midterm election victories interspersed with endorsements from, among others, super lawyer Ted Olson, who argued the case and in the video called it “maybe the most important case in history.”

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