STATEMENT BY HARVARD LAW PROFESSOR JOHN COATES

AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE IN BOSTON ON JANUARY 24, 2013, ANNOUNCING CONGRESSMAN JIM MCGOVERN’S CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT BILLS TO OVERTURN THE SUPREME COURT’S CITIZENS UNITED RULING AND RECLAIM OUR DEMOCRACY
“These amendments will help restore the pre-Citizens United status quo.  That, in turn, will reduce the pressure on companies to spend money on elections, and allow business leaders to remain focused on growing the economy.  They can return to making good products, providing good services, and generating returns for shareholders, and they will have less need to divert resources and dilute strategies in a mutually destructive effort to win a large slice of a fixed governmentally-provided pie.  In short, the amendments will be good not only for individual voters, but for America’s best companies as well.”
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