Katherine Hapgood
1/24/24
(The Wash) “Our freedoms are at the core of what’s at stake in 2024,” said Tiffany Muller, president of the nonprofit End Citizens United. “Our freedom over our own body, our freedom over voting, our freedom over what books we read, who we marry, who we love, and the fundamental foundations of our democracy.”
The Supreme Court’s Citizens United case of 2010 created an equivalence between money and free speech that had never previously existed, essentially putting a “for sale sign” on democracy in the U.S., she said.
Muller tied the decision to limit regulations on campaign contributions from corporations and the funding of restrictions on reproductive freedoms, such as the Dobbs decisions that overturned Roe v. Wade, the 2022 case protecting the right to an abortion.
“In no issue is it more apparent what money has done than in undermining Roe and our fundamental right to an abortion,” Muller said.