Person
Anthony Kennedy
U.S. Supreme Court justice who wrote the Court’s opinion in Citizens United v. FEC (2010).
Connections 2
involved in
- Citizens United v. FEC delivered the opinion of the Court Primary record 1
- McCutcheon v. FEC joined the plurality opinion Primary record 2
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Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), No. 08-205, decided 21 January 2010, Supreme Court of the United States (U.S. Reports, via Library of Congress), 21 Jan 2010.
Primary record
Kennedy, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Roberts, C. J., and Scalia and Alito, JJ., joined
Ingratiation and access, in any event, are not corruption.
If elected officials succumb to improper influences from independent expenditures; if they surrender their best judgment; and if they put expediency before principle, then surely there is cause for concern
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McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, 572 U.S. 185 (2014), No. 12-536, argued 8 October 2013, decided 2 April 2014, Supreme Court of the United States (U.S. Reports, via Library of Congress), 2 Apr 2014.
Primary record
Chief Justice Roberts, joined by Justice Scalia, Justice Kennedy, and Justice Alito, concluded that the aggregate limits are invalid under the First Amendment.
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