Forty-eight years ago today, the Supreme Court ruled in Buckley v. Valeo (1976) that restrictions on campaign spending were a violation of the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
Most of us learned about the absurd Supreme Court doctrines of “money = speech” and “corporations are people” in 2010, when the Citizens United ruling came down.
But the Buckley v. Valeo (1976) case that set the “money = speech” precedent was not about corporations — it was about one individual’s belief that campaign finance laws were a violation of his first amendment rights to express himself.
The Citizens United v. FEC (2010) ruling essentially married them — further crystallizing into the case law of the highest court in the land that BECAUSE corporations are people, and BECAUSE money is free speech, then any restrictions on campaign spending is a violation of their constitutional rights.
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