CITIZENS UNITED v. FEC: THE CORRUPTION OF THE AMERICAN POLITICAL PROCESS THROUGH INDEPENDENT CORPORATE EXPENDITURES

1st amendment corporate law

By Brent T. Yonehara Introduction There are myriad reasons on how corporate special interests have decimated the American political system. Jack Abramoff traded gifts for votes and tax breaks in a scandal that rocked Congress in 2005.[1] Big Tobacco contributed $46.7 million to defeat a recent California ballot measure to tax cigarettes to fund cancer …

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