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Opinion: Citizens United 1 Year Later -- Unleash the Corruption

Last month it was reported that incoming Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., "paid a personal visit" to Tom Donohue, the president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, "to thank him for the chamber's unsolicited support of his candidacy." Apparently the senator did not get the memo that all genuflecting before campaign funders should be...

Background on citizens united

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, , is a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court, which held that the First Amendment prohibited the government from restricting independent political expenditures by corporations and unions.

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