Citizens United

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First, and extremely succinct, Citizens United allows corporations and wealthy individuals to spend as much money as they want on political ads. The tool they use is called a Super PAC (Political Action Committee) The PACs create advertisements to help specific people get elected. People who will create bills they want and vote as they want.

Those elected people become the servants of the Super PAC. More correctly, the servant of those who manage the PAC. They no longer represent the citizens.

Citizens United is a Supreme Court decision. In practice, so far, Congress has never overruled a specific Court decision. But per the Constitution, yes it can.

Please read a few sentences from the Constitution: Article III, The Judicial, Section 2. The text to which I refer is simple and obvious.

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Please do some searches such as: "is citizens united bad"

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