Supreme Court session: the future of our democracy is at stake

[Ardent15]

The Supreme Court will hold a special session on Thursday, presumably to issue decisions. Such special sessions are unusual, leading many to suspect that the court will release its long-awaited decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a major campaign finance case. The court has already taken the rare step of hearing arguments in the case twice. For the second argument, the court asked the parties to offer their views on whether it should overrule a 1990 decision that upheld restrictions on corporate spending to support or oppose political candidates, and part of the 2003 decision that upheld the central provisions of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law.

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<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/us/21brfs-RARESESSIONF_BRF.html>

A companion to the Grayson OP @DailyKos thread.