Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Citizens united

  • Citizens United Shakes Up Montana's Independent Political System

    But Montana's system is being dismantled by the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling, which opened the doors to corporate influence in the political system.

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Just How Much More Money is Being Spent Because of Citizens United? A Lot.

    Given the way the latest poll numbers are trending, it's unclear whether Citizens United has had the field-clearing napalm effect on the presidential election that some had predicted.

    www.slate.com

  • Panel: Citizens United a game changer

    21, 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission and a series of cases at lower-level courts are a "game changer" for American democracy, said panelists speaking at a Sept.

    www.fiercegovernment.com

  • Knox County Board won't tackle Citizens United issue

    The Knox County Board will not take up a resolution denouncing the 2010 Citizens United Supreme Court decision that allowed for unlimited political donations.

    www.galesburg.com

  • Citizens United to air anti-Obama radio ads during UN General Assembly

    Citizens United is planning to have a radio presence during the U.N. General Assembly, with a $40,000 buy in New York and Florida hitting President Obama on Mideast policy.

    www.politico.com

  • Ben & Jerry's co-founder starts money-stamping campaign

    The goal, he said, is to "demonstrate massive, broad base support" for a constitutional amendment overturning the Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision, which allowed unlimited corporate political spending on free speech grounds. Over the ...

    content.usatoday.com

  • Lansing City Council unanimously denounces Citizens United, corporate ...

    In part, the amendment language reads, "Artificial entities, such as corporations, limited liability companies, and other entities, established by the laws of any State, the United States, or any foreign state shall have no rights under this ...

    www.mlive.com

  • Citizens United, Shareholder Protection, and "the Silence of the Funds"

    When the Supreme Court in Citizens United allowed corporations to spend money in elections they thought that shareholders would be able to monitor the use of corporate funds "through procedures of corporate democracy.

    www.policyshop.net

  • Montana and Citizens United

    The majority opinion relied on the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling, which held that the government may not block independent spending by corporations and unions in elections.

    takingnote.blogs.nytimes.com

  • Are Shareholders Happy With Your Company's Political Spending?

    Two years after the U.S. Supreme Court vastly expanded the scope of permissible corporate political spending with Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, evidence is mounting that this new freedom may come with perils for public companies and ...

    www.law.com

  • Citizens United Obama film to air

    Citizens United has struck a deal with a dozen television stations to run its hour-long film featuring voters disaffected with President Barack Obama, sending the Republican critique of the incumbent into tens of millions of homes in the lead-up to ...

    www.politico.com

  • CNN Anchor Tells Citizens United President David Bossie You Can't Judge ...

    With Occupy Unmasked being released today in select theaters, the September 21 edition of CNN's Early Start with Zoraida Sambolin invited David Bossie, producer of the film and President of Citizens United to discuss the film. However, things got hazy ...

    hotair.com

  • Iran's arsenal poses threat to US military, citizens

    United Against Nuclear Iran protesters hold a demonstration outside the Warwick Hotel in New York, where Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is staying.

    www.freep.com

  • Citizens United and Forked-Tongued Candidates

    Convention week is a good time to reflect on campaign spending and the controversies over the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The battle-lines around that controversial decision have been clearly drawn ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Citizens United poll shows Akin leading in Missouri

    9/13/12 8:04 AM EDT. A poll commissioned by Citizens United's political arm shows Todd Akin leading Sen. Claire McCaskill in Missouri.

    www.politico.com

  • Jimmy Carter: Citizens United Ruling, 'Financial Corruption' Are Threatening ...

    He added that he hopes the "Supreme Court will reverse that stupid ruling," referring to the case known as Citizens United. Carter praised Mexico and several countries where Carter Center staff have monitored publicly financed elections, and he said ...

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Citizens' Bossie: Obama Is a Hypocrite on Super PACs

    Citizens United President David Bossie charged in an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV that President Barack Obama's disdain of super PACs is hypocritical because the president accepts money from them and supports unions whose members have no ...

    www.newsmax.com

  • A New Strategy to Fight Citizens United

    We progressives have been in quite a tizzy about Citizens United, especially now that 2012 election cycle is swamped with Super PAC money.

    www.huffingtonpost.com

  • Obama, on Reddit, proposed overturning Citizens United

    WASHINGTON -- In the middle of a rambling conversation on the website Reddit on Wednesday afternoon, President Obama proposed the idea of a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's 2-year-old Citizens United decision. Obama ...

    www.latimes.com

  • 'Citizens United' and the Corporate Court

    In Citizens United (2010), the Court held that private corporations, which are nowhere mentioned in the Constitution and are not political membership organizations, enjoy the same political free speech rights as people under the First Amendment and may ...

    www.thenation.com

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