U.S. Senator Jefferson Beauregard Sessions (R) meet with local citizens, politicians and government officials in Scottsboro Thursday at Scottsboro's City Hall. Wiki's Bio on Senator Sessions - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Sessions (photos by G. Morgan, videos below produced and videography by G. Morgan - All Rights Reserved)
Complete Video of Town Hall Meeting
Citizen Comments and Questions
Senator Sessions on Citizens United and Campaign Finance Reform
The Citizens United Case
"Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, No. 08-205, 558 U.S. 310 (2010), is a U.S. constitutional law case dealing with the regulation of campaign spending by organizations. The United States Supreme Court held that the First Amendment prohibited the government from restricting independent political expenditures by a nonprofit corporation. The principles articulated by the Supreme Court in the case have also been extended to for-profit corporations, labor unions and other associations. " https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC
Campaign Finance Reform
"Campaign finance reform is the political effort in the United States to change the involvement of money in politics, primarily in political campaigns."
"Although attempts to regulate campaign finance by legislation date back to 1867, the first successful attempts nationally to regulate and enforce campaign finance originated in the 1970s. The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) of 1972 required candidates to disclose sources of campaign contributions and campaign expenditures. It was amended in 1974 with the introduction of statutory limits on contributions, and creation of the Federal Election Commission (FEC). It attempted to restrict the influence of wealthy individuals by limiting individual donations to $1,000 and donations by political action committees (PACs) to $5,000. These specific election donations are known as ‘hard money.’ The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act (BCRA) of 2002, also known as "McCain-Feingold", after its sponsors, is the most recent major federal law on campaign finance, which revised some of the legal limits on expenditures set in 1924, and prohibited unregulated contributions (commonly referred to as "soft money") to national political parties. ‘Soft money’ also refers to funds spent by independent organizations that do not specifically advocate the election or defeat of candidates, and funds which are not contributed directly to candidate campaigns."
"In early 2010, the United States Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections cannot be limited pursuant to the right of these entities to free speech."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Campaign_finance_reform_in_the_United_States
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