Shareholder groups have been anticipating this outcome since the Citizens United case was decided.
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Especially in the aftermath of Citizens United, it is time to right this relationship.
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C. had prohibited the broadcast under McCain-Feingold, and Citizens United had challenged the decision.
First, Citizens United removed long-standing restrictions on union speech as well as on corporate speech.
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By 2010, in Citizens United, it had become clear that Thomas was routing Breyer.
That said, the impact of Citizens United is in danger of being vastly exaggerated.
In a different way, though, Citizens United is a distinctive product of the Roberts Court.
Bossie decided to transform Citizens United into a movie studio, which would produce conservative documentaries.
After the second argument of Citizens United, the votes were the same as after the first one.
Eight years later, with the inauguration of George W. Bush, the public profile of Citizens United receded.
In one sense, the story of the Citizens United case goes back more than a hundred years.
The Supreme Court struck down parts of the law in a 5-4 decision of Citizens United v.
In the absence of a future court overturning Citizens United, the fundamental response should be a constitutional amendment.
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Citizens United is perhaps the culmination of developments that have been accelerating over the last decade and a half.
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But in 2010 the Supreme Court, in the landmark case Citizens United v.
While the arduous amendment process is underway, the progressive response to Citizens United rests with several legislative and administrative initiatives.
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Many top Democratic donors are as disheartened as Obama is about the top-dollar gamesmanship unleashed by the Citizens United ruling.
Citizens United is a not-for-profit group supported mostly by individual donations, but it has also received donations from private firms.
The Supreme Court has indicated its support for such corporate expenditures, particularly through its holding in the Citizens United v.
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Shortly before the Citizens United argument, Stewart had been named a Deputy Solicitor General, the highest rank for a career lawyer.
His position was upheld, which suggests that even before the Citizens United decision the restrictions against corporate campaign spending were elastic.
As American politics assumes its new form in the post-Citizens United era, the credit or the blame goes mostly to him.
Progressives United aims to build a massive grassroots effort dedicated to mitigating the effects of, and eventually overturning, the Citizens United decision.
Another explosion came with groups applying for 501(c)(4) status after the Supreme Court's Citizens United ruling loosened campaign-finance restrictions in January 2010.
At the appearance at Stetson, Thomas was asked about the most controversial decision so far from the Roberts Court, Citizens United v.
There is every reason to expect that there will be much more direct corporate electoral funding in the wake of Citizens United.
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The 2010 Citizens United ruling served as the apotheosis of this mindset.
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As Kennedy had in Citizens United, Roberts said that governments could never take steps to equalize opportunities for candidates in electoral contests.
The objective of this first goal was no doubt hatched in the aftermath of the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v.
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The targeting followed the 2010 Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case that opened the door to increased corporate and private political spending.
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