A federal district judge in Virginia has found the campaign finance laws barring corporations from contributing to candidates to be unconstitutional. This is just a trial court judge, so the immediate implications are limited, but the basis for his decision is that last year’s ruling by the Supreme Court in the Citizens United case dictates this outcome, an argument many conservatives have been making for some time and that campaign finance advocates feared was the logical conclusion of CU. So this sets the stage for the Supreme Court to possibly revisit the issue.

David Kurtz

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