Category: Const Law Issues

Citizens United and the future of corporate political advertising

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date January 12, 2010
Categories In Const Law Issues, Courts & Cases

What if corporations could make independent expenditures in support of candidates? The demands of the day won’t allow me to post if Citizens United comes out this morning, so check SCOTUSBlog liberally around 10:00 a.m. In the meantime, consider what a corporate independent expenditure might look like if the Court holds that corporations enjoy a […]

Short PoliticalActivityLaw.com video on Citizens United

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date January 11, 2010
Categories In Const Law Issues, Courts & Cases, Meta

I just posted another short video. In this video, after a clip from a trailer for “Hillary: The Movie,” I briefly discuss what’s at issue in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. The Supreme Court could issue its opinion this week.

Citizens United in the red zone

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date January 10, 2010
Categories In Const Law Issues, Courts & Cases

AP’s Sharon Theimer reports on Citizens United here. Possibly coming soon to your TV screen: election-season Super Bowl-style ads promoting congressional and presidential candidates, paid for by some of the nation’s largest corporations. It may happen. For decades, business and union money has been largely shut out of state, congressional and presidential campaigns. The Supreme […]