Some questions for opponents of the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United.

In last night’s State of the Union speech, President Obama called out the Supreme Court’s decision overturning corporate and union spending limits, saying it “reversed a century of law to open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections.” Associate Justice Samuel Alito shook his head [...]

There’s been a lot of upset to our left this week over the perception that Citizens United recognized corporations as having the same rights as people. The gist of the complaints seems to be that this notion is deeply offensive – that putting creatures of statute on par with people somehow diminishes the latter. This [...]

A recent Gallup poll shows that the American public agrees with the Supreme Court that campaign contributions are free speech but that most nonetheless want to limit said speech. Fifty-seven percent of Americans consider campaign donations to be a protected form of free speech, and 55% say corporate and union donations should be treated the [...]