The public is invited to attend a discussion of corporate speech and democracy March 2 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Law. The event is scheduled for 4 to 5 p.m. in Room 5048 of the law school.
The public is invited to attend a discussion of corporate speech and democracy March 2 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Law. The event is scheduled for 4 to 5 p.m. in Room 5048 of the law school.
The discussion will focus on the recent landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court in the case of Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission. In it, the court ruled 5-4 that corporations had a constitutional right to spend an unlimited amount of money on “electioneering communications” – political messages endorsing or attacking a candidate that were formerly prohibited by the McCain-Feingold Act.
Featured speakers include Brenda Wright, director of the Democracy Program at Demos and nationally recognized expert on voting rights, campaign finance reform and election reform, and Gene Nichol, director of the UNC Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity and a constitutional law scholar.
The event is hosted by the UNC poverty center and co-sponsored by North Carolina Policy Watch. Hourly parking is available in the Rams Head parking deck and the N.C. 54 Visitors Lot, pay lots both located within a short walk of the School of Law. Please visit http://tinyurl.com/yhll3k6 for directions and parking information.
UNC Center on Poverty, Work and Opportunity: (919) 843-8796, poverty_center@unc.edu.
News Services contact: Susan Houston, (919) 962-8415, susan_houston@unc.edu