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Supreme Court Poised to Allow Corporate Funding of Campaign Ads

By James A. Kahl, Lawrence H. Norton, Gregg P. Skall

In a stunning move, the Supreme Court announced on Friday that it is reconsidering the constitutionality of laws that prohibit corporations and unions from funding ads that influence elections. A ruling that such laws are unconstitutional would invalidate a decades-old spending restriction that applies in federal elections and in many states, and would unleash a flood of spending in the 2010 cycle and beyond.The issue is presented to the Court in Citizens United v. FEC, a challenge to the ?elect read more

Full post as published by Political GPS: Womble Carlyle Political Law on July 01, 2009 (boomark / email).