Category: Democracy Amendments

Can Montana Brief End Citizens United?
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Montana’s attorney general is due to file a brief Friday in the U.S. Supreme Court, asking it to uphold the state’s Corrupt Practices Act. This 1906 law prohibits corporations from making expenditures on behalf of candidates in Montana elections.

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Seattle calls for an amendment to overturn Citizens United and make it clear that corporations don’t have constitutional rights.
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Great news from Seattle: Yesterday, the City Council there voted 8-0 to adopt Resolution 31380, joining more than 100 municipalities and four states so far in asking Congress to overturn the Citizens United ruling. Specifically, the Seattle resolution calls on Congress to amend the United States Constitution to make clear:

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Rhode Island is now 4th state to call for an amendment
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Rhode Island has just become the 4th state to officially call for a U.S. constitutional amendment:

"to effectively overturn the holding of Citizens United and it’s [sic] progeny and to permit the governments of the United States and the several states to regulate and restrict independent political expenditures by corporations and wealthy individuals"

For the complete text of state resolution H 7899, click here.

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Vermont becomes 3rd U.S. State to call for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United
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Vermont today became the third U.S. state to pass a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United ruling.

Both houses of Vermont’s state legislature have now passed a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment "that provides that money is not speech and corporations are not persons". The resolution is visible here.)

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