The constitutional and political impact of Citizens United

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🗓️ 17 March 2016

⏱️ 47 minutes

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David Keating of the Center for Competitive Politics and Paul Ryan of the Campaign Legal Center discuss the state of elections and campaign finance, six years after Citizens United. We need your help to make this podcast even better! Go to bit.ly/wtpfeedback to share your feedback. Get the latest constitutional news, and continue the conversation, on our Facebook page and Twitter feed. We want to know what you think of the podcast. Email us at [email protected]. Please subscribe to We the People. While you’re in the iTunes Store, leave us a rating and review—it helps other people discover what we do. Please also subscribe to Live at America’s Town Hall, featuring conversations and debates presented at the Center, across from Independence Hall in beautiful Philadelphia. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out all of our sibling podcasts at iTunes.com/Panoply. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit—we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Kevin Kilbourne and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Josh Waimberg and Danieli Evans. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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0:00.0	Hey, we the people listeners. We need your help to make this show even better.
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0:11.0	That's BIT.LY slash WTP feedback.
0:18.9	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO
0:20.9	of the National Constitution Center,
0:22.9	and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:26.9	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America
0:30.1	chartered by Congress to disseminate information about the US Constitution on a nonpartisan basis.
0:36.5	And on today's show we dive into the world of elections and campaign finance,
0:40.6	six years after the Supreme Court's ruling in the Citizens United case.
0:45.4	In that case, the court held that corporate funding of independent political communications
0:49.0	in campaigns for public office can't be limited under the First Amendment. We're now going to examine
0:54.0	cutting-edge questions that have arisen post-citizens united. Since then the
0:58.2	court has struck down aggregate limits on individual political contributions
1:01.7	in a single election cycle.
1:03.6	They have been proposals to overturn Citizens United through constitutional amendment.
1:07.7	And at this point in the 2016 campaign,
1:09.9	Super PACs and other outside groups have raised nearly $400 million and spent nearly half that amount.
1:15.7	Joining me to explore the constitutional landscape after Citizens United, and to assess the decisions
1:20.3	impact on the 2016 elections are two of America's leading experts on the
1:24.3	front lines of these important constitutional debates. David Keating is
1:28.2	president of the Center for Competitive Politics and Paul Ryan is deputy
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