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This has nothing to do with citizens united.


What? It is directly related to Citizens United and associated precedent, these are independent expenditures by a corporation in an election.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_National_Bank_of_Boston_...


Citizens United had to do with independent expenditures on "electioneering communications", defined as advocacy related to specific political candidates. Spending on issue advocacy was already unlimited. (Which is almost certainly the right decision - if issue advocacy were restricted, organizations like the EFF wouldn't be able to talk at all in the 60 days before an election.)


EFF is not a corporation.


EFF is most certainly a corporation; it is a non-profit corporation registered in MA, ID number 043091431.

I don’t know if this link will work for others, but searching by name will turn it up:

http://corp.sec.state.ma.us/CorpWeb/CorpSearch/CorpSummary.a...


Citizens United wasn't just about for-profit corporations. The namesake organization Citizens United is a nonprofit as well.




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