{"id":217348,"date":"2010-01-21T10:14:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T15:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.opensecrets.org,2010:\/news\/\/8.1323"},"modified":"2010-01-21T18:39:31","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T23:39:31","slug":"campaign-finance-law-to-be-overhauled-as-supreme-court-rules-in-citizens-united-v-federal-election-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/217348","title":{"rendered":"Campaign Finance Law to be Overhauled as Supreme Court Rules in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court, in session this morning, is releasing its rulings<\/a> on the landmark campaign finance case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Early reports indicate the court’s rulings will indeed rewrite federal campaign finance law, particularly as it applies to corporate and union independent expenditures.<\/p>\n

Capital Eye<\/em>‘s Michael Beckel is busy preparing an analysis of the decision, so be sure to check back here<\/a> later today.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, read the excellent live chat<\/a> being conducted by SCOTUSblog<\/a>, as it’s providing a play-by-play of the court’s ruling. SCOTUSblog’s Tom Goldstein says this of the decision: “Much will depend on the wording, but today’s decision is a small revolution in campaign finance law.”<\/p>\n

As we write, Supreme Court justices are reading from their opinions within the Supreme Court’s chambers.<\/p>\n

It appears the opinions are gigantic — dozens and dozens of pages worth of majority opinions and partial dessents. Read the written opinion here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And read our previous coverage<\/a> of the issue, which spans the months that the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission<\/em> case has been in play.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Supreme Court, in session this morning, is releasing its rulings on the landmark campaign finance case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Early reports indicate the court’s rulings will indeed rewrite federal campaign finance law, particularly as it applies to corporate and union independent expenditures. Capital Eye‘s Michael Beckel is busy preparing an analysis of the decision, so […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3994,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3994"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}