@JCNSeverino Substitute "grassroots political organizations" for "corporations" in Prof. Hasen's tweet.
This is not correct. Citizens United was about corporations spending unlimited money to influence federal elections.https://twitter.com/JCNSeverino/status/785307897177702400 …
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@RickGarnett@JCNSeverino Citizens United was a trojan horse to allow for-profit corporations to spend unlimited sums in elections. -
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@rickhasen@JCNSeverino What it *did*, though, was hold#FirstAmendment gen'ly d/n allow silencing pol speech b/c speakers use corp form
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@rickhasen After all, Severino's group started spending#darkmoney, under a different name, before Citizens United http://www.opensecrets.org/outsidespending/recips.php?cmte=C30001242&cycle=2008 …pic.twitter.com/VgputMzd1y
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@JCNSeverino Citizen United decided if a group of citizens can make movie critical of a candidate.1st Amend won,censorship lostThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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She seemed to say that money ≠ speech. Do you think she wants to overturn Buckley v Valeo?
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