At the April 14 meeting of the Federal Election Commission, Commissioner Ellen Weintraub will move to open a rulemaking that would partially roll back the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United.
Even on the paralyzed FEC, everyone agrees that political speech by foreign nationals and government contractors should be regulated. The commissioner’s absurdly simple insight, as laid out in her New York Times op-ed, is that U.S. corporations have shareholders who are foreigners or contractors. To paraphrase Mitt Romney: Corporations are (foreign) people, my friend.
