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After the swearing-in of the first Congress elected by unlimited corporate election spending, 2011 went down as the year Congress fiddled while America burned.
In Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, the Court ruled that government restrictions on corporate election spending are unconstitutional because such restrictions violated corporations' right to free speech as set out in the first amendment of the Bill of Rights.
"We forget how unusual the corporate election system is in a democracy.
State officials told the court that fighting corruption required them to maintain limits on corporate election spending.
In Citizens United, the big campaign finance case, eight justices endorsed disclosure requirements for corporate election spending.
The fear of millions, perhaps billions, more corporate dollars more deeply infecting the electoral process highlights the need for corporate election reform.
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The policy change will be in place in time for next spring's corporate elections season.
The agency will meet on Wednesday to discuss ways to improve the mechanics of corporate elections.
The S.E.C. should also look for ways to encourage individual investors to vote in corporate elections.
But there's a simple remedy, proposed during the Bush administration: fair corporate elections.
More recently, his focus had shifted from contesting corporate elections to trying to bring about change through litigation.
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