Bloomberg Law - Document - Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 50, 130 S. Ct. 876, 175 L. Ed. 2d 753, 187 LRRM 2961 (2010), Court Opinion

Bloomberg Law - Document - Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, 558 U.S. 50, 130 S. Ct. 876, 175 L. Ed. 2d 753, 187 LRRM 2961 (2010), Court Opinion: "Yet, the FEC has created a regime that allows it to select what political speech is safe for public consumption by applying ambiguous tests. If parties want to avoid litigation and the possibility of civil and criminal penalties, they must either refrain from speaking or ask the FEC to issue an advisory opinion approving of the political speech in question. Government officials pore over each word of a text to see if, in their judgment, it accords with the 11-factor test they have promulgated. This is an unprecedented governmental intervention into the realm of speech."

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