Why The Corporate Voice Is Louder Than Your Voice
Robert A.G. Monks, a member of our new Legal Advisory Committee, recently published this article The Corporate Voice is Louder than Your Voice in The Huffington Post.
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Blog Action Day 2013: Corporate Rights or Human Rights?
The following blog post, originally posted on Earthrights.org, was written by our Legal Advisory Committee member Katie Redford. The post is a part of Blog Action Day, an annual event aimed at uniting bloggers around a common theme, this year’s theme being human rights. For a full list of our new Legal Advisory Committee with brief bios for each member, click here.
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Powerful Op-ed Against McCutcheon by Small Business Owner
Recently the Statesmen Journal featured a powerful opinion piece written by Mike Sumner, a small business owner and Republican from Woodburn, Oregon. His piece illustrates the threat of corporate dominance in our elections due to increased power from campaign contributions, and the particular concern for small business owners and consumers alike.
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Obama: Citizens United Helped Pave the Way to Shutdown
Fran Korten, the executive director of YES Magazine, wrote a new article yesterday to highlight the role of big money in politics and the connections between the 2010 Citizens United case, McCutcheon vs. FEC, and the current government shutdown.
Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in McCutcheon v. FEC
Today marks a very troubling moment for our democracy as the Supreme Court will hear the McCutcheon vs. FEC case. While the 2010 Citizens United case allowed corporations to make unlimited campaign expenditures to influence our elections, McCutcheon will enable the wealthy few to give more money directly to the candidates themselves.
Forbidden Thoughts on McCutcheon v. FEC
This post is written by Free Speech for People Co-Founder and President Jeff Clements and is featured on the ACS Law Blog.
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Small Businesses Agree: Campaign Spending Limits Make Good Business Sense
The facts are clear — small businesses are overwhelmingly against unlimited campaign spending in elections. Why? Because campaign spending limits makes good business sense.
Obamacare and religious liberty…for corporations?
Three years after Citizens United, the Supreme Court decision that granted corporations the right to free speech and the power to flood our elections with campaign contributions, comes a new battle.
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On Argument of McCutcheon v. FEC, Democracy Groups Call for Constitutional Amendment
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CONTACT: Ryan O’Donnell October 2, 2013
(413) 335-9824
rodonnell@freespeechforpeople.org
On Argument of McCutcheon v. FEC, Democracy
Groups Call for Constitutional Amendment
Supreme Court hearing case shows need for an amendment to protect integrity
of our democracy, eight groups argue
Elizabeth Warren: ‘We Face A Clear Danger’ In McCutcheon v. FEC Court Case
On Thursday in a live event sponsored by the Constitutional Accountability Center, Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Professor Lawrence Lessig, director of Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics, discussed why they believe the founding fathers would disagree with the way in which the Supreme Court interpreted the term “corruption” in its ruling on Citizens United v. FEC.