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Government

Mar. 1, 2012

VIDEO: The state of campaign finance two years after Citizens United

Now that corporations can spend unlimited sums, what is the extent of money's influence in politics? By Jessica A. Levinson of Loyola Law School


January marked the two-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court's much maligned decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 130 S. Ct. 876 (Jan. 21, 2010). In that case, a bare majority of the Court found that for purposes of spending money in the political marketplace, corporations must be treated as identical to people. The Court also ruled that expenditures made independent of candidate campaigns - no matter how large those expenditures are ...

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