A group of Home Democrats released a constitutional modification on Thursday to overturn a Supreme Courtroom ruling that eradicated limits on corporate campaign expending.
The Supreme Court’s 2010 ruling in the Citizens United v. FEC circumstance prohibited the government from restricting political campaign paying by providers, nonprofit organizations and unions. This modification, if passed, would let Congress and point out governments to enact “reasonable, viewpoint-neutral” restrictions on campaign funding, together with limiting corporations from investing “unlimited amounts of revenue to affect elections.”
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), who released the amendment, claimed in a push launch that it would “close legal