ALBANY – Critics of New York’s election laws say they expect little immediate impact from the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down restrictions on independent expenditures by corporations and unions because the state’s campaign finance statutes contain no such spending limits.
“New York had the embarrassing distinction of being one of the weakest states on campaign finance the day before the Citizens United decision, so the rest of the nation fell to the same low place where New York had already been,” said Ciari Torres-Spelliscy, counsel to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law. “So, in a weird way, New York will hardly notice Citizens United because we already had such horrible rules when it came to corporate and union spending.”
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