WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, the Sierra Club joined a coalition of constituency groups that represents nearly 10 million members and supporters in filing an amicus brief in McCutcheon v. FEC, urging the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold “aggregate” federal campaign contribution limits.
The brief was authored by Demos, and signers include the four principal conveners of the Democracy Initiative (Communication Workers of America, Greenpeace, NAACP, Sierra Club), Main Street Alliance, Our Time, Rock the Vote, the American Federation of Teachers, Working Families Organization, People for the American Way and U.S. PIRG.
For more on the brief, click here.
Courtney Hight, Director of the Sierra Club’s Democracy Program, released the following statement in response:
"The Sierra Club's 2.1 million members and supporters know that to protect our environment, we have to protect our democracy. The last thing our nation needs is another decision like Citizens United, opening up the floodgates to even more corrupting money from big polluters that will drown out the voices of the rest of us and wash away any remaining notion of accountability in our government.”
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