Former Wyoming Senator, Alan Simpson is featured in The Daily Caller with a new piece explaining why GOP state leaders should support a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.
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Big money interests increasingly dominate our election process and threaten the basic promise of American democracy: political equality for all. Like the poll tax of the past, today’s campaign finance system operates as a barrier to equal and meaningful participation in the political process. This special forum will address the question of money in politics from
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Please join us for an all-day legal symposium at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, which will include scholars from across the country to discuss new scholarship and legal arguments challenging the doctrines underlying the Citizens United ruling and to advance a new jurisprudence in defense of our democracy.* Friday, November 20 9:00am-4:30pm Your RSVP is requested.
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Argued less than a week after Citizens United v. FEC, and decided just two months later, the D.C. Circuit’s less-widely-reported decision in SpeechNow.org v. FEC further extended Citizens United and opened the door to what we now call Super PACs. But some argue that SpeechNow, which the Supreme Court declined to review, is not a necessary or the best interpretation of Citizens United, and
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The International Franchise Association suffered a stinging defeat as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit rejected its constitutional challenges to Seattle’s new living wage law.
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Jeff Clements, Free Speech For People’s Co-Founder and Board Chair, has authored a new updated and expanded edition of his widely acclaimed book, Corporations Are Not People. Join Jeff for a special speaking event sponsored by Citizens for Economic Justice and the Public Interest Law Fellowship Program at UMASS Dartmouth School of Law on the evening of
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Jeff Clements, Free Speech For People Co-Founder and author of Corporations Are Not People, joined Inside Charlottesville radio program to discuss corporate personhood and the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. FEC ruling.
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Inside U.S. Trade, a weekly report on major government and industry trade action, interviewed Ron Fein and highlighted the conflict minerals case of National Association of Manufacturers, et al. v. US SEC. Click to read
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On Monday, a federal judge in California rejected industry’s latest attempt to use the First Amendment to avoid making consumer disclosures.
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