Citizens United and Campaign Finance Reform

The 2010 Supreme Court decision in Citizens United v. FEC was a victory for special interests at the expense of the American people. It said that corporations deserve the same free speech protections as people, enabling them to spend freely from their corporate treasuries on campaign ads. It also gave rise to Super PACs which spent more than $1 billion in the 2012 election, mostly on negative ads.
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