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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
How the SCOTUS Citizens United ruling challenged a century of efforts to reign in corporate power
Posted by Justin Jeffre
Jeffrey Toobin’s piece in the New Yorker describes how the SCOTUS Citizen’s United decision takes down campaign finance law and returns us to the Gilded Age. The piece is 10,000 words so here’s a shorter article from Salon describing it.
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