What the Court & Everyone Misses in Citizens United v. FEC
The Supreme Court recently held in Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission that corporations had a First Amendment right to spend money to support or oppose political candidates. The Court struck down federal laws regulating independent political advertising by for-profit and non-profit corporations before an election even as they reaffirmed rules about disclosure and disclosures for ads and against direct corporate giving to candidates. The court assumed if a corporation could not engage in political speech then neither could major media outlets…