Americans Reject Supreme Court Ruling on Election Spending by Corporations

Majority of respondents support legislation that would regulate how corporations spend money on political advertising. Most Americans disagree with a recent United States Supreme Court decision that allows corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money supporting federal political candidates, a new Angus Reid Public Opinion poll has found. On Jan. 21, the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that the federal government cannot ban corporations from spending in federal elections. In the online survey of a representative national sample of 1,003 American ... | Read More