Washington, DC — Citizens United President David N. Bossie issued the following statement after Citizens United filed an amicus brief urging the U.S. Supreme Court to summarily reverse the Montana Supreme Court’s decision in American Tradition Partnership, Inc. v. Bullock. You can read the amicus brief here. “There is no question that the Supreme Court’s […]
PI ON THE SCENE … SCHUMER, DEMS VILIFY CITIZENS UNITED DECISION: Calling the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision “the worst decision since Plessy v. Ferguson” — as in, the 1896 case in which the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of state laws promoting racial segregation — Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) led a gaggle […]
By most accounts, Obama’s solicitor general, Donald Verrilli Jr., did a terrible job arguing the government’s case defending Obamacare, particularly the individual mandate. Even The New Yorker’s Jeffrey Toobin, a liberal who had predicted an easy win for Obamacare, seemed shaken by Verrilli’s performance on Day 2, calling it a “train wreck” that put the […]
Jonathan S. Tobin writes about how the Citizens United decision has leveled the playing field for challengers against incumbents: The Times story attempts to paint such super PACs as tools of corporate interests, which fits in with the liberal critique of Citizens United as undermining democracy. But the real moral of this story is very […]
Syndicated columnist George Will discusses the effects of the Citizens United decision: The people currently hysterical about super PAC money in politics blame the 2010 Citizens United decision, wherein the Supreme Court held that corporations and unions can spend unlimited amounts on political advocacy as long as they do not coordinate with candidates. The court’s […]
Paul Mulshine exposes the hypocrisy of many critics of the Citizens United decision and explains the issues at stake: Let’s imagine that every citizen had to ask a government agency whether it was permissible to voice an opinion. Let us further imagine that the citizen was then warned that expressing that opinion at a certain […]
In the name of protecting his fundraising juggernaut, President Obama has reneged on campaign finance promises that he knew full well he would not keep. Back in 2008, after stating repeatedly that he would abide by the public finance system, then-candidate Barack Obama reversed himself in favor of raising unlimited private money, setting new fundraising […]
Ed Whelan writes on NRO’s Bench Memos blog: There has been broad agreement that President Obama didn’t get it right in his State of the Union address two years ago when he criticized the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision for supposedly “revers[ing] a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests—including foreign corporations—to […]
A snapshot of the Citizens United v. FEC decision: ….When his case reached the Supreme Court, the conservative justices voiced alarm that the government could restrict such a movie, or perhaps a book, simply because it was paid for with corporate money, and decided to broadly consider the issue of corporate-funded election ads. Chief Justice […]
Today’s Wall Street Journal points out “Campaign-finance scolds denounce the system they created”: In the common media wisdom, super PACs are a result of the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling. This is said to have created a “loophole” that the super PACs have exploited to evade campaign-finance restrictions on the money that candidates can […]
Almost two years ago Citizens United succeeded in its lawsuit against the Federal Election Commission. In this groundbreaking case the Supreme Court made clear that the First Amendment, at its core, protects political speech, regardless of the speaker’s identity. Our victory has been subject to numerous unwarranted attacks. President Obama used the decision to attack […]
As I flew into Las Vegas, Nevada, for the CNN Presidential Debate and the Western Republican Leadership Conference last week, I saw firsthand what the Obama Recession has done to the Silver State. When you make your final descent into McCarran International Airport, you are struck by the streets and cul-de-sacs without any homes on […]