Landmark case rules money = free speech

On January 21st, 2010, in the Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission decision, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that "money" counts as "free speech." In doing so, the court declared many existing campaign finance regulation laws unconstitutional, and placed severe limits on what we as a people can do about the toxic relationship between moneyed interests and our elected officials.

The Supreme Court ruling split on Party - that's right, Party - lines.

A libertarian group called Citizens United used "Hillary: The Movie" to take on McCain-Feingold.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/21/AR2010 012103582.html


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._Federal_Election_Commi ssion

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/supreme_court_dispatch es/2009/03/the_supreme_court_reviews_hillary_the_movie.single.html

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9A07E5D8113EF936A15750C 0A96F9C8B63&sec=&spon=&&scp=4&sq=Citizens%20United %20v.%20Federal%20Election%20Commission%20&st=cse

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