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Citizens United

SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
9/28/2022

Does History Show a Remedy for Dark Money?

by Bo Blew

Until 1969's Tax Reform Act, private foundations allowed the rich to influence policy and avoid taxation with haphazard oversight by the states. The new generation of independent political action groups needs similar federal oversight.

SOURCE: Salon
5/29/2022

Gun Violence is Rooted in Citizens United as Much as the Radical View of the Second Amendment

by Jim Sleeper

Our inundation with commerial "speech" and the Supreme Court's declaration of such messaging as a First Amendment freedom, contributes to the degradation of America's capacity to conceive of the common good.

SOURCE: The Atlantic
4/8/2021

The Man Who Waited 50 Years for This Moment

Fred Wertheimer has been battling the influence of money in politics since the 1970s. Writer George Packer asks if, at age 82, he will finally match his ideas to the political moment.

SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
3/3/2021

The Far Right’s Big Money Strategy Has Poisoned Our Politics

by Marc C. Johnson

The 1976 Supreme Court decision in Buckley v. Valeo ruled that spending money to influence a campaign is free speech, launching the era of big money in politics long before the much-maligned decision in Citizens United v. FEC.

SOURCE: New Republic
3-29-18

Company Men

by Kim Phillips-Fein

The 200-year legal struggle that led to Citizens United and gave corporations the rights of people.

SOURCE: The Atlantic
1-25-13

Jim Sleeper and Daniel J.H. Greenwood: To Stop Gun Violence, We Need to Remember We Can Regulate Corporate Speech and Advertising

The Obama Administration's gun-control agenda is unlikely to prevail unless it's accompanied by a wrenching national struggle on two fronts: re-thinking the "well regulated" part of the Second Amendment, and curbing paid corporate gun glorification that undermines "free" speech under the First Amendment.