Martha Coakley Becomes First Sitting AG to Support Overturning Citizens United
December 9, 2011 at 4:53 PM Leave a comment
I think it’s just astounding that it has taken until today — December 9, 2011 — for the first sitting Attorney General in the United States to come out in support of repealing Citizens United, a ruling that was handed down in January, 2010. I.e., we’ve had almost two years of silence from the top law lawyers in the country.
Really sad and so indicative of the hold the corporatocracy has on our elected officials.
Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley has become the first sitting state attorney general in the United States to support a constitutional amendment to overturn the US Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. FEC ruling issued in January 2010. The ruling swept away a century of precedent barring corporate expenditures in US elections and has unleashed a torrent of unlimited corporate money in the political process.
On Wednesday, December 7, 2011, Attorney General Coakley issued a letter to the chairs of the Massachusetts state senate and state house judiciary committees declaring support for a pending resolution that calls on Congress to pass and send to the states for ratification a constitutional amendment restoring free speech and fair elections to the people.
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