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As If It Weren’t A Bad Week Already

by David Kurtz
01.21.10 | 5:21 am

The Supreme Court has just issued its much-anticipated decision on campaign finance law in the Citizens United case. The people who know this field far better than I are calling it an upheaval in the regulation of corporate contributions. “A small revolution in campaign finance law,” says Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSBlog.

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