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Constitutional Law

Dec. 24, 2010

The Court Keeps Faith With the Constitution: A Retrospective on Citizens United v. FEC

One year later, the Citizens United case has not brought the flood of corporate spending on campaigns that its critics said it would. By Joerg W. Knipprath of Southwestern Law School.


By Joerg W. Knipprath


The Supreme Court recently heard oral argument in Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Assoc. (EMA), which asks whether California can prohibit the sale of violent video games to children. Under the challenged law, parents are still free to buy such games that invite their offspring, according to the state's brief, to decapitate girls who are begging for mercy after having been attacked with a shovel or, for a different thril...

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