WASHINGTON DC — “New reports are surfacing across the country of businesses and special interests working to exert more political influence in elections, following the Supreme Court’s landmark Citizens United v. FEC decision. Judicial elections are among the targets…. A NPR report, meanwhile, recaps House-passed legislation that has stalled in the U.S. Senate to require disclosure of corporate and labor union spending to influence elections…. Citizens United changed the rules for corporation and labor unions, permitting them unlimited spending to influence elections through expenditures made independently of candidates’ campaigns.” Peter Hardin, GavelGrab.

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