The Committee for Economic Development has a new report out regarding the threat that Citizens United poses to democracy. The report can be found here.
From CED:
The 2012 election is expected to be the most expensive in history – and it will also be the first presidential campaign in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which reversed a generation of reforms and opened the door to unrestricted expenditures, and Federal Election Commission actions that encouraged secret donations to independent political groups.
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