Disclose Act and the Citizens United Decision



Disclose Act and the Citizens United Decision

Citizens United Decision

On January 21, 2010, the Supreme Court ruled, 5-4, in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that the provision in question was an unconstitutional restriction on freedom of speech. The Court voted along ideological lines, with conservative justices in the majority (Florida, 2010). Justice John Paul Stevens read portions of his dissenting opinion aloud to the Court to signal his strenuous disagreement with the ruling, saying that the decision overturned decades of fighting against the distinctive corrupting potential of corporate electioneering (James, 2011). Reform advocates contend that ...