There aren't a lot of functioning democracies around the world that work this way, where

you can basically have millionaires and billionaires bankrolling, whoever they want, however

they want, in some cases, understores.

So we're here today, once again, to say enough is enough.

It's time for the people to take back their elections.

It's time to overturn.

Citizens United.

You know, I had to raise a lot of money from my campaign.

So I...there's nobody who operates in politics that has perfectly clean hands on this issue.

I'm Nick Capitice.

I'm Hannah McCarthy.

And this is Civics 101, the podcast or fresher course on the basics of how our democracy

works.

And today, we are going to break down to the Supreme Court decision that Jimmy Carter

called stupid, that Barack Obama openly criticized at a state of the Union address, that former

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in an interview would be, quote, the impossible

dream to overrule citizens united versus FEC 2010.

In this episode, you are going to learn about the case and a lot of initialisms, the FEC,

VCRA, known as Bicra, Pax, and Super Pax, and you're also going to learn about corporations,

dark money, and finally, how this decision has affected political campaigns in the last

12 years, and all in about 20 minutes.

30 minutes.

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