Forgot your password? User Journal  Journal: A Cure Worse than
the Disease: Amending the Constitution vs. Citizens United
Journal by einhverfr  Recently a set of six senators have
proposed a Constitutional Amendment to overturn the
controversial Supreme Court case of Citizens United v. FEC which
held that corporations were allowed to make unlimited
expenditures with regard to elections provided that those were
independent expenditures, not coordinated with candidates.  The
Citizens United case overturned two previous Supreme Court
cases, McConnel v. FEC (which was a case the court evidently had
trouble drawing lines over given the fact that 9 justices
produced 8 opinions, and pieces of four of the opinions
commanded a majority of the court), and Austin v. Michigan
Chamber of Commerce. Some First Amendment scholars from across
the political spectrum have hailed the decision. For example
Eugene Volokh, a Republican, has generally felt this was an
important protection of Constitutional liberties, and the ACLU p