Campaign Financing Cases

Fredreka Schouten of USA Today discusses campaign financing laws and 2010 midterm election. She brings up two court cases that influence campaign financing. The first being McCain Finegold law, which tried to regulate corporation and interest group donations to a candidate. The next case is the Citizens United bill. A group called Citizen’s United wanted to air a documentary about Hilary Clinton before the elections. They were not permitted to advertise it on national television because of limitations set on campaign financing and corporate donations. The decision of the Citizens United case was that the corporations’ free speech rights were violated.