Democrats Propose Constitutional Amendment to Overturn First Amendment Decision

Democrats Propose Constitutional Amendment to Overturn First Amendment Decision
Committee member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) speaks during the fourth of eight planned public hearings of the U.S. House Jan. 6 committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, on June 21, 2022. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
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Democrats in the House of Representatives have introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United v. FEC decision made in 2010.

The court ruled 5–4 that the free speech clause of the First Amendment prohibits the government from restricting independent expenditures for political campaigns by corporations and overruled an earlier decision that banned corporations from making “electioneering communications.”

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