How Democrats are using SEC to beat campaign finance laws

By Joseph Lawler

Published April 18, 2016 4:01am ET

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How Democrats are using SEC to beat campaign finance laws — In almost all cases in which corporations have voted on disclosing political spending, investors have voted it down.

Fallout from the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United decision has clouded the outlook for President Obama’s nominees to the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Two nominees for the commission saw their candidacies stalled at the committee level this month partly because of a push by Senate Democrats to force the SEC to take on corporate political spending.

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