Fred Wertheimer: Citizens United more radical than realized

By Fred Wertheimer, The Hill, 6 February 2012

The Supreme Court’s disastrous decision in the Citizens United case has done enormous damage to our political system.

In striking down the ban on expenditures by corporations in elections, the high court, along with subsequent lower court decisions, has opened the door wide for the super rich, corporations and other groups to pour unlimited money and secret contributions into federal elections.

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