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How does the Citizens United Supreme Court decision relate to lobbying? As I recall, it related to non-candidate related/controlled campaign ads/expenditures. L
by wingspar 3y ago
How does the Citizens United Supreme Court decision relate to lobbying?
As I recall, it related to non-candidate related/controlled campaign ads/expenditures.
Lobbying for/against laws long preceded Citizens United.
- zer8k 3y agoIt enabled corporations and other entities to freely dump almost unlimited money into politics. The capital a mega-corporation like Google, or ByteDance, trounces what citizens can do by an order of magnitude. These entities were always allowed to donate, but in a very limited way. That limitation was ruled unconstitutional. The decision created a political class openly controlled by corporations. The lobbying you and I could do (or even 1,000,000 of us) will never amount to what ByteDance could do consistently over time.
- boeingUH60 3y agoYeah, but lobbying was always allowed before Citizens United.
- bostik 3y agoBecause it effectively uncapped the amount of money corporations can pour into lobbying. Looking from the outside, I'd say that CU codified a quintessentially American approach to governance: one dollar, one vote.