Valeo, held that limits on individual donations to political campaigns and candidates did not violate the First Amendment but limiting candidates from using their own personal or family funds, and limiting total campaign spending did violate the First Amendment. Timeline 1Ĭitizens United is a conservative nonprofit corporation that released a documentary entitled Hillary: The Movie.

This Supreme Court case was significant because it changed how corporations could use their money for elections as well as it made part of the BCRA unconstitutional. Section 203 stated that “electioneering communication as a broadcast, cable, or satellite communication that mentioned a candidate within 60 days of a general election or 30 days of a primary, and prohibited such expenditures by corporations and unions.” The case surrounded the question of whether Citizens United was allowed to air the film Hillary: The Movie days before the 2008 election. Supreme Court case that established that section 203 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) violated the first amendment right of corporations.

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