The financial effect of disastrous U.S. Supreme Court rulings like Citizens United resulted in a midterm that cost almost $4 billion.
In the months ahead, New Yorkers will renew the campaign to make the Empire State the next to call for a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.
The campaign launches with showings throughout New York of the powerful documentary “Pay2Play”. This will build momentum for a rally in Albany in January on the fifth anniversary of Citizens United.
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Last year, New York was just three state legislators short of becoming the 17th state to formally call for an amendment.
All across New York, voters are outraged that a few billionaires continue to try to buy our democracy.
In the 2014 midterm election, outside special interests did more than ever before to corrupt our elections.
The fifth anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that enabled that corruption is right around the corner – and New Yorkers are gearing up to fight to make this the last anniversary before Citizens United is overturned.
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Michael H. Drucker
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The attacks on the Citizens United decision are not rational. In 1976 the US Supreme Court ruled that independent expenditures cannot be regulated. That was Buckley v Valeo. That was the important decision. Also in 1978 in Bellotti v First National Bank of Boston, the US Supreme Court ruled that corporations cannot be banned from speaking out about ballot measures. All Citizens United did was extend that to candidate elections. It's Buckley v Valeo that is the important decision.
Corporations are not people and should not be treated so. It will take another case or a constitutional amendment to bring it back to the Supreme Court to overturn Buckley v Valeo.
I meant get rid of Citizen United.
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