Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission

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McCutcheon v. FEC was a landmark case in American campaign finance law which challenged that it is unconstitutional to limit an individual’s donations to as many parties as they want because in doing so their freedom of speech is being violated. The plaintiff is Shaun McCutcheon who is part of the Jefferson County Republic Party Steering Committee as well as the Reagan Foundation. The Republican National Committee was also a plaintiff. This case is a constitutional challenge to aggregate limits on

Angevine American Government 10 May 2016 Federal Elections Committee versus Citizens United The increasingly popular organization, Citizens United, is focused on circumscribing government in order to decentralize power and place it in the hands of the people (“Who-We-Are”). Their firm beliefs are rooted in the ideas that the founding fathers had for this country based on values such as common sense, good will, and honesty (“Who-We-Are). Citizens United Productions, or (CUP) is an award-winning documentary

In the Supreme Court case, Citizens United vs FEC, Citizens United was seeking an injunction against FEC to prevent an application being processed of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) to its film Hillary: The Movie. The movie talking about whether or not senator Hillary Clinton would be fit to be president. FEC took it to court because they thought it was unconstitutional to showcase the movie because of sections 203 and 201 of the BCRA state that corporations and labor unions can’t fund

Citizens United impacted the Political Institutions by allowing unions, corporations, and associations to spend unlimited amounts of money in elections. Saying that they won't coordinate their efforts with a candidate. Citizens United helped unleash unprecedented amounts of outside spending in the 2010 and 2012 election cycles. Before Citizens United was created, outside groups legally limited they ways they could use the money to influence elections. Citizens United teamed up with a lower court

Citizens United DBQ Corporate advantage is often times very controversial in government, from funding candidates with money, to swaying the mind of the voters, to making PACs and superPACs; this topic is not at rest with the F.E.C. or other government programs or agencies. In this case we see “Citizens United” ,a special interest group, fight with the F.E.C. about this advantage and the right to set restrictions on spending money for the purpose of engaging in political speech. In a 5-4 decision

Politics is a fight for power and all comes down to money. To win the election and be in power takes a great amount of money. Since candidates need money to get elected, they may look for the support of rich corporations, and because “the justices allowed the fossil-fuel industry to roll heavy artillery out onto the political field industry operatives brag about putting hundreds of millions of dollars into each federal election cycle” (Whitehouse). Which gives big fossil-fuel corporations the greenlight

Because I seemed to find compelling arguments in both articles, making this decision was quite difficult. And while I believe that this subject is definitely worth further research, at this time and after some deliberation I am going to go with Bradley Smith’s, “Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform” as giving the overall more persuasive case between the two articles. One of the main points of Smith’s article that made his side more persuasive is the point that “...the assertion that

Money in politics in the most important issue to me at this moment. Especially with the presidential run of 2016. Many of the candidates are taking money legally from big corporations, Wall Street and rich billionaires who put money in their camping. They are not doing it to help the people they do it because they like having the power to rig the system to their advantage. No matter what party the representative is they still have to please their donors who controls. That is why young people are

Following the Watergate scandal, the Federal Elections Campaign Act of 1974 was amended to create the regulatory agency, known as the Federal Elections Commission, in 1975. The duties of the FEC consist largely of enforcing regulation, limitation, and prohibition on financial contributions to federal campaigns, candidates, political parties, and political action committees. The Act has thoroughly set limits on the amount of money a person or committee may donate to the previously mentioned situations