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Money, politics and Justice Anthony Kennedy: Revisiting Citizens United

  • Written by Michael T. Morley, Assistant Professor of Law, Florida State University

Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission is one of retiring U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s most maligned rulings. Many condemn the opinion for treating corporations as people, money as speech, and elections as commodities to be sold to the highest bidder.

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