Tag: Citizens United
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David v. Goliath: Montana v. Corporate Money in Politics
by William L. Kovacs, ©2026 (Oct. 5, 2026) — Montana enacted its Corrupt Practices Act in 1912 to restrict corporate political spending. Following Citizens United, the Montana Supreme Court upheld the state’s prohibition, relying on Montana’s history of regulating corporate political influence. In 2012, however, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed that decision in American Tradition…
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Corporate Personhood: Constitutional Doctrine Without Constitutional Text: Part IV
by William L. Kovacs, ©2026 (Aug. 24, 2026) — Part IV: Using AI Statistics to Prove Corporate Money Corrupts Politics After 140 years of Supreme Court holdings that corporations have constitutional rights, there does not appear to be a simple remedy for balancing the use of massive corporate resources to control the political system while…
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Corporate Personhood: Constitutional Doctrine Without Constitutional Text, Part III
by William L. Kovacs, ©2026 (Aug. 10, 2026) — Part III — Citizens United and the Rise of Corporate Political Power From Artificial Entity to Political Actor. The decisive step in the evolution of corporate political power came with Citizens United. The case did not hold that corporations could make unlimited direct contributions to candidates.…
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Corporate Personhood: Constitutional Doctrine Without Constitutional Text
by William L. Kovacs, ©2026 (Jul. 13, 2026) — One of the least understood controversies in constitutional law is how corporations were transformed from artificial beings of state law into constitutional actors possessing rights the states cannot withdraw. The transformation to personhood over time gave corporations greater practical political influence than individual citizens because the…
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The High Court Has Spoken on Corporate Contributions: What’s the Verdict?
SUPREME COURT NEWS: BAN ON CANDIDATE CONTRIBUTIONS STICKS by Contributor (May 24, 2019) — In the latest court news, campaign finance law wins in the eyes of the Supreme Court as they rule to continue a ban on businesses contributing unlimited funds. Up to 90 percent of Americans want to reduce the role of money…
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Sanders to Delegates: “I Look Forward to Your Votes During the Roll Call Vote Tomorrow Night”
EMBRACES ISSUES OF CLIMATE CHANGE, FREE COLLEGE, UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE by Sharon Rondeau (Jul. 25, 2016) — After Bernie Sanders took the stage at the DNC on Monday night shortly before 11:00 p.m., he thanked all of his supporters and “delegates” for their work in the primaries, then said, “I look forward to your votes…
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US Republic Now Gone–Fully Replaced by Dictatorship
“TRANSFORM” MEANS “OBLITERATE” by Sher Zieve, ©2014 (Jun. 19, 2014) — I have been writing about this time for, at least, the last ten years. It has now arrived. It has occurred under Barack Hussein Obama. Those who say “Obama has now lost his political power” are either not seeing what’s going on or are…
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Breaking: Sen. Mike Lee Giving Town Hall Meeting
OBAMACARE, NATIONAL DEBT, SYRIA by Sharon Rondeau (Aug. 28, 2013) — At 9:38 p.m. EDT, Sen. Mike Lee, the junior U.S. Senator from Utah, was speaking at a town hall meeting in Farmington, UT about Obamacare, saying that “outside the beltway, the law is widely despised” but popular “within the beltway.” Sen. Lee has been…