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What Does the Recent Supreme Court Campaign Finance Decision Mean for Your Organization?

2010

Make no mistake about it – in the recent Citizens United decision, the Supreme Court radically changed the rules of the road for for-profit and some nonprofit corporations looking to influence elections. In sort, it removed the prohibition on corporations and unions spending their own money for communications that expressly advocate the election or defeat of a clearly identified federal candidate, so long as the communication is made “independently” – i.e., without the involvement of the candidate or his or her own campaign.

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