CITIZENS UNITED AGAINST CITIZENS UNITED: A MOVEMENT IS BUILDING TO AMEND THE CONSTITUTION

摘要

In January 2010, five US Supreme Court justices legalized the wholesale purchase of America's elected officials. In its landmark decision, Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission, the court's majority ruled that corporations, as persons, havea First Amendment right to spend unlimited amounts of money, as speech, on campaign advertisements as long as those communications are not formally coordinated with any candidate. In Chief Justice Roberts's court, at least, political expenditures by corporations "do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption."