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Freedom of Speech 2010

January 21, 2010

Freedom of Speech 2010

In a landmark decision today, five members of the United States Supreme Court gave new meaning to the phrase “Money Talks”  by adding it to the First Amendment. Read about it here and here. Lawyers and gluttons for punishment may read the majority opinion in Citizens United v. U.S. Federal Election Commission.

Image (“Freedom of Speech, after Norman Rockwell and the U.S. Supreme Court”) by Mike Licht. Download a copy here. Creative Commons license; credit Mike Licht, NotionsCapital.com

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