The Federal Election Commission held a hearing Wednesday on a proposed
rule intended to nix and alter regulations that conflict with the 2010 Citizens United decision. ….The proposed FEC rule, “Independent Expenditures and Electioneering
Communications by Corporations and Labor Unions,” had been called a
“housekeeping measure” by campaign finance attorneys.
But
panelists pushed the commission to implement the Citizens United changes
clearly and leniently for groups because “now the presumption is
freedom.”
“The regulations as they currently exist were based upon the idea that
there was a corporate prohibition, and the FEC was then involved in the
enterprise of implementing certain exceptions,” said James Bopp Jr. of
the James Madison Center for Free Speech.
“Well now of course that has been reversed 180 degrees. Now the presumption is freedom,” he said. full story at the link