The impact of “Citizens United” is clearer than ever with Elon Musk buying his way into power, Pramila Jayapal said.

The biggest donors to American elections are billionaires Timothy Mellon, Richard Uihlein, Miriam Adelson, and Elon Musk.

"As long as Citizens United remains the law of the land, our democracy will remain broken," said one campaigner.

that was the rationale given by the Supreme Court in its 2010 decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which enabled corporations and the wealthy to make such contributions.

In 2010, the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission used a relatively esoteric and narrow campaign ...

Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s “We the People Amendment” directly challenges the system that allowed Elon Musk to rise from campaign megadonor to an unelected official controlling federal policy. Her proposal ...

The goal should not be to simply restore legal hurdles, but to build a wall preventing corporations and the super-rich from corrupting our elections and harming people and communities. The goal should ...

“The Citizens United ruling fundamentally reshaped the ... thanks to a federal court’s 2010 ruling in the case SpeechNOW.org v. FEC, which removed donation limits on independent expenditures ...

The ultra-wealthy are set to rule in the new administration.

Elon Musk’s outsized influence with the new president is a direct result of the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, which turns 15 this week ...

The Supreme Court 2010 decision known as Citizens United said that financial donations to political candidates should be considered a form of free speech. Well, happy Valentine’s Day to the ...