The Post discusses Citizens United in this editorial today. Citizens United ought to have been allowed to distribute “Hillary: The Movie” any way it chose; this is just the sort of political speech that the First Amendment was designed to protect. But those protections can be upheld without eroding the prohibition on corporate-funded campaign advertising. […]
Day: September 8, 2009
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The Times praises the Obama administration’s transparency efforts here. It took a court challenge by a watchdog group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, to remind the administration of Mr. Obama’s campaign vows for a new era of openness. After a review, the president ordered the policy. We’d hope the White House aims for […]
After Citizens United
The Times, in this editorial, opines on what may happen if Austin is overruled in Citizens United. If the court races to overturn federal and state laws, and its well-established precedents, to free up corporations to drown elections in money, it will be swinging for the fences. The American public will be the losers.