Predictions of Doom Don't Materialize Post Citizens United
10 November 2017
Timothy Lee, CFIF's Senior Vice President of Legal and Public Affairs, discusses how time has proven critics of the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizens United decision wrong in their doomsday predictions regarding the practical effects of the case.
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