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How to Get Rid of “Citizens United”

We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way.

Robert Reich
Nov 24, 2025
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Friends,

Several of you responded to my “Sunday thought” yesterday by saying that the first step out of the mess we’re in is to get rid of the Supreme Court’s bonkers Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission decision of 2010, which held that corporations are people — entitled to the same First Amendment protection as the rest of us.

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