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Corporations can give directly to campaigns, federal judge rules
Friday, May 27, 2011
Washington Post: “A federal judge in Virginia has ruled that the U.S. law banning direct corporate contributions to candidates is unconstitutional,” reports Robert Barnes. U.S. District Judge James Cacheris said the U.S. Supreme Court‘s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission “removed the legal underpinnings for the federal ban against direct contributions to a candidate.”
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