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Montana Takes on Citizens United
Editorial
New York Times
January 23, 2012
Two years ago, when the Supreme Court struck down bans on independent corporate and union expenditures in elections in the Citizens United case, Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion claimed that money does not “give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption.” While it might result in “influence over or access to elected officials,” he wrote, it is not the same as bribery.
Ask Bill Moyers: How can ordinary people help to overturn or nullify the Citizen United Decision?
Ask Bill: How can ordinary people help to overturn or nullify the Citizen United Decision? from BillMoyers.com on Vimeo.
Citizens United and corporate personhood: Jeff Clements responds to Kent Greenfield’s Washington Post op-ed
“We never said corporations are people; we said they are voices, speakers, speech-makers, a class of persons. That’s different.”
Jeff Clements
January 23, 2012
‘We the People’ can overturn Citizens United
By Jim McGovern and Jeff Clements
The Boston Globe
January 21, 2012
THE FIRST three words of the preamble of our Constitution are “We the People.’’
Two years ago today the US Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission upended that promising vision. Corporations — which do not have mouths, minds, or consciences — won a “free speech’’ right to spend unlimited money to influence elections.
Two Years Later: Showdown With 'Citizens United'
The Nation
Katrina vanden Heuvel
January 17, 2012
Giving Voice Back to the People
By Martha Coakley, Massachusetts Attorney General
Huffington Post
January 11, 2012
Watch Live Tomorrow, January 12 at 8a/est! Corporations Are NOT People: A breakfast with Jeff Clements and Bob Herbert
The live webcast will air on Thursday, January 12 at 8 a.m. EST
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