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Sen. Tester to tackle money’s influence on politics at Harvard Law Scool

November 6, 2014 By EdwardErikson

Topping out at nearly $4 billion, we’ve just wrapped up the most expensive midterm election in our country’s history. Everybody outside of Washington agrees – Republicans, Democrats, and Independents -- that there’s too much … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: Edward Erikson, free-speech-for-people, john-bonifaz, Senator John Tester

Corporations Are Not People

September 1, 2014 By EdwardErikson

  Jeff Clements – former Assistant Attorney General of Massachusetts and co-founder of Free Speech for People – will be at the Concord Bookshop, 65 Main St., Concord, MA at 7 p.m. Sept. 4 to discuss the impact of the Citizens United … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: citizens-united, free-speech-for-people, Jeff Clements

50-Plus Law Professors, former AGs, say Citizens United wrong, May Require Constitutional Amendment

October 4, 2010 By Jeff

After the Citizens United decision last year, leaders like Representative Cory Atkins, Bill Strauss and Senator Jamie Eldridge worked hard on legislative responses to the damage that Citizens United did to our democracy.  But they … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: campaign-finance.-fair-elections, citizens-united, constitutional-amendment, first-amendment, free-speech-for-people, money-in-politics

Pres. Obama: Citizens United “strikes at our democracy itself”

January 23, 2010 By Jeff

President Obama's weekly address today blasted the Supreme Court's 5-4 decision in the Citizens United case that struck down the McCain-Feingold restrictions on corporate spending in elections. In overruling the Austin v. Michigan Chamber … [Read more...]

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