Category: Courts & Cases

Carl Hiaasen discusses Citizens United in this editorial. Here in Florida, where oil companies are pushing hard for offshore drilling, the Supreme Court’s decision opens bountiful opportunities to incumbent officeholders and newcomers alike. Although coastal drilling remains an unpopular concept in most beachside communities, any candidate for federal office who supports it could probably count […]

TPMMuckraker discovered K&L Gates’s Public Policy and Law Alert on Citizens United and their report is here. In the wake of last month’s Citizens United ruling, a powerhouse Washington lobbying firm is informing its corporate clients on how they can use middlemen like the Chamber of Commerce to pour unlimited amounts of money into political […]

Many sources report that a poll allegedly shows that the public generally opposes the Supreme Court’s holdings in Citizens United. Eight in 10 poll respondents say they oppose the high court’s Jan. 21 decision to allow unfettered corporate political spending, with 65 percent “strongly” opposed. Nearly as many backed congressional action to curb the ruling, […]