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The Corporate Power Reset

This series is dedicated to CAP’s legal strategy to drain corporate and dark money from American politics.

The sun rises of the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C., on November 8, 2022. (Getty/Samuel Corum)

Restoring Social Trust in Democracy, Courts, Democracy, Elections, Politics and Elections, State and Local Policy, State Legislation, Supreme Court

Citizens United held that government cannot stop corporations from spending unlimited money on elections. But corporations are creatures of state law—every one of them is brought into existence by a state, with a list of powers the state defines. CAP’s Corporate Power Reset (CPR) is a state-by-state legal strategy that uses that authority to no longer grant political-spending power to corporations operating in a state. CPR does not regulate speech. It’s not regulation, it’s redefinition. It does not overturn Citizens United. It makes it irrelevant.

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Undoing Citizens United and Reining In Super PACs Report

Undoing Citizens United and Reining In Super PACs

By resetting corporate powers and treating super PACs like every other PAC, Congress and the states can begin to undo the damage caused by Citizens United.

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