Some defendants in a Texas Elections Code dispute will rely on the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission as a significant part of their oral argument before El Paso’s 8th Court of Appeals on Jan. 24. The appeal marks one of the first times a Texas appellate court has been asked to square the state election law in the context of the controversial high court ruling.
In 2010′s Citizens United, a 5-4 high court held that the government cannot prevent corporations and unions from spending money on political ads to support or denounce individual candidates in elections.
