Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission
Group questions Justice Scalia’s impartiality on campaign finance cases
A year ago, the Supreme Court decided on one of the most controversial campaign finance cases in recent history. Now, a liberal group, Common Cause, has filed a petition arguing that Justices Scalia and Thomas should be taken off campaign finance cases.
Frontline’s ‘Big Sky, Big Money’ Looks at Campaign Finance
To find out just how the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision has transformed political races in America, Frontline teamed up with Marketplace to look at the role of campaign finance in the race for one hotly-contested Montana Senate seat. The Frontline documentary, “Big Sky, Big Money,” produced by our partner WGBH, airs tomorrow night. Kai […]
Political Advertising Breaks Records
If you’re a voter in Ohio, Colorado, or Virginia, it probably won’t surprise you to learn that a recent study by the Wesleyan Media Project found that 2012 has been a record-breaking year for political advertising. Swing states have been inundated with a barrage of campaign ads from candidates and causes alike, as Ohio voter Andy Schuster explains. Schuster […]
$10 Million GOP Super-PAC Advertising Plan Leaked
We all know that we’re living in the era of the super PAC. And we’re now facing the first presidential election since the Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case, the ruling that the American government couldn’t stop political spending by large corporations and labor unions in election campaigns. According to our partner, The […]
Floyd Abrams on Super PACs and the Legacy of Citizens United
Nearly two years ago, a bitterly divided Supreme Court ruled that the American government could not ban political spending by corporations and labor unions during electoral campaigns. The case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, overruled important precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations and dramatically altered the way campaigns are conducted. One major […]
The Rise of the Super PAC
As a result of the Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case, rules regarding corporate and union campaign spending were significantly eased. Super PAC ads are more strongly-worded and less accurate, largely because the third party groups funding them are harder to track down than something funded directly by […]