05/07/2012
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"Citizens United found that independent expenditures, advertisements, pamphlets, books, documentaries produced independently from a party or candidate's campaign cannot be suppressed under the First Am..."
"The President's charge right there before all the American people that the Court had opened the door to special interests, bankrolling elections, I think was very misleading."
"The President claimed that the decision 'reversed a century of law' and 'opened the floodgates' for special interests and foreign powers to 'bankroll American elections.'"
"It did not reverse a century of law because there was no law limiting independent expenditures until 1947."