US politics
fromThe Atlantic
1 day agoHawaii vs. Citizens United
Hawaii is moving to limit corporate political spending by changing state-granted corporate powers, potentially reducing dark money influence in federal elections.
Fifteen years after a landmark Supreme Court case turbocharged corporate spending in the political process, a group hopes it may have a way to finally rein in some of the outsized influence of the ultrawealthy. The 2010 ruling on Citizens United opened the floodgates of political spending in elections. Every year since then, untraceable financial political contributions, largely from corporations and wealthy individuals, have increased dramatically.