Editorial: Limit corporate activism in Hawaii

In 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission turned to constitutional principles to overturn restrictions on campaign messaging, and therefore campaign spending, by corporations with just one caveat: that the messaging not be directed by or coordinated with a candidate. The ruling upended century-old restrictions on campaign spending, allowing virtually unlimited spending to influence elections by corporations, associations, institutions, nonprofits and unions. And the results have not been pretty.

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