The election commission's brief relegated the First Amendment to a footnote that cited decisions upholding the Ohio law.
Early Americans used constituent instructions to bring about a constitutional amendment to reverse a Supreme Court decision they felt overstepped its bounds, just as most Americans feel about today's court and Citizens United.
The House minority leader, Nancy Pelosi, is pushing a constitutional amendment to overturn the decision.
Sanders has tried to pass a constitutional amendment to overturn the decision.
He has introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn the decision, promised to appoint justices opposed to it, voted for disclosure legislation, and also backs public financing of elections.
Since Citizens United was handed down in 2010, the growing movement for a 28th amendment to overturn the decision has been both fractured and fanciful.
"Shouldn't that threat of unlimited donations apply to his administration, too?" The president still fights against the Supreme Court's ruling by supporting the proposed Disclose Act in Congress and calling for a constitutional amendment to reverse the decision.
Hillary Clinton announced early on that she was making campaign finance reform a pillar of her campaign and, importantly, voiced support for a constitutional amendment to overturn decisions like Citizens United.
An amendment to defer the decision was defeated earlier in the debate.
He has called for a constitutional amendment to overturn a 2010 Supreme Court decision that allowed corporations and other groups to spend unlimited funds to influence elections.
Indeed, in his radio address, Mr. Bush framed his call for an amendment as being in response to a decision by a state court in Massachusetts, Mr. Kerry's home state, that forced the state Legislature to recognize same-sex marriages.
