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lastlib

(23,239 posts)
Tue Nov 18, 2014, 10:18 AM Nov 2014

Citizens United--Can someone tell me please

What are the leading organizations fighting this ruling and working for a constitutional amendment to overturn it? (banning corporate personhood and barring corporate participation in elections and donations to campaigns)

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Citizens United--Can someone tell me please (Original Post) lastlib Nov 2014 OP
... Scuba Nov 2014 #1
Thanks, Scuba! lastlib Nov 2014 #3
K&R to spread Scuba's link. Jackpine Radical Nov 2014 #2
Move to Amend Jacoby365 Nov 2014 #4
Common Cause, Move to Amend, PFAW, and Our Future are some of them. sinkingfeeling Nov 2014 #5
This is a "strange bedfellows" issue Recursion Nov 2014 #6
K&R woo me with science Nov 2014 #7

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
6. This is a "strange bedfellows" issue
Tue Nov 18, 2014, 11:18 AM
Nov 2014

In that the ACLU, SEIU, and AFL/CIO do not want to see it overturned. The opposition has some liberal and conservative elements, while the existing power structures of both parties (I guess unsurprisingly) are for its continuation. (Personally I'm torn on the issue -- I don't think the FEC should be able to keep a filmmaker from making a documentary just because an election is happening soon.)

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