Hillary Clinton Hillary Rodham ClintonReport: Indictment 'likely' in FBI's Clinton Foundation probe David Duke: Clinton 'should be getting the electric chair' Ayotte, Hassan spar over Clinton's FBI email review at NH Senate debate MORE announced Saturday that in the first 30 days of her presidency, she would propose a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in the Citizens United case that loosened campaign finance rules. 
 
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 Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee, made the announcement in a video for the annual Netroots Nation progressive conference. 
 
 "Today I’m announcing that in my first 30 days as president, I will propose a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and give the American people — all of us — the chance to reclaim our democracy," she said. 
 
 "I will also appoint Supreme Court justices who understand that this decision was a disaster for our democracy. And I will fight for other progressive reforms, including small-dollar matching and disclosure requirements." 
 
 In a statement, Clinton also pledged to "promote [Securities and Exchange Commission] rulemaking requiring publicly traded companies to disclose all political spending to their shareholders" and to sign an "executive order requiring federal government contractors to fully disclose all political spending." 
 
 Sen. Bernie Sanders Bernie SandersSenate Republicans smell an upset in Wisconsin battle The danger in voting for Trump A new game plan for jobs? Higher wages. MORE (I-Vt.), who endorsed Clinton last week following his own presidential campaign's end, repeatedly called to repeal Citizens United during the 2016 primaries, vowing to only appoint justices who would overturn the decision. 
 
 "I know that many of the people in this room supported Sen. Sanders in the primary," Clinton told Netroots activists in the video, as footage of the senator and his wife, Jane, played. "I'm looking forward to hearing from you, learning from you and working with you." Clinton also called for criminal justice reform, laying out two additional proposals for turning "talk into action," especially in the wake of recent deaths of black men shot by police. "First, as president I’ll bring law enforcement and communities together to develop national guidelines on the use of force," Clinton said. "Second, I will target $1 billion in my first budget to take on implicit bias, which remains a problem across our society and even in the best of our police departments." President Obama also made a video appearance at the conference, talking with his 2008 campaign manager, David Plouffe, in a time-travel skit where he lays out his "future" accomplishments on healthcare, climate change, the economy, the Iran deal, relations with Cuba and terrorism. 

 Hillary Clinton will push constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United 
 
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 WASHINGTON — Democrat Hillary Clinton will call for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in her first 30 days as president, her campaign said. 
 
 Clinton was slated to announce the plan Saturday in a video message to progressive activists at the Netroots Nation annual conference, as she works to shore up support among voters loyal to Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders who made reducing the influence of the wealthy an animating principle of his presidential campaign. 
 
 Clinton first made the pledge to overturn the decision in 2015 during the opening week of her presidential campaign. The 2010 high court ruling, which allowed unlimited corporate and union spending in elections, has helped release a flood of political money in federal, state and local contests. 
 
 In a statement, campaign officials called overturning the controversial decision a key part of Clinton’s plan to “challenge the stranglehold that wealthy interests have over our political system.” 
 
 Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton (Photo: Carolyn Kaster, AP) 
 
 Clinton also pledged to take other actions long sought by campaign-finance watchdogs, including signing an executive order requiring companies with federal contracts to disclose their political spending. 
 
 Liberal watchdog groups applauded her move. 
 
 “With this pledge, Hillary Clinton is making it clear that she understands the path to the White House depends on having both the right positions on money-in-politics reforms and a clear path of action,” said David Donnelly, president of Every Voice, which supports overhauling the campaign-finance system. 
 
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– In a bow to Bernie Sanders' campaign, Hillary Clinton picked up one of the causes he championed on Saturday, reports the Hill—that of overturning the 2010 Supreme Court ruling that opened the floodgates on corporate political donations. "Today I’m announcing that in my first 30 days as president, I will propose a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United and give the American people—all of us—the chance to reclaim our democracy," Clinton said in a video for Netroots Nation. "I will also appoint Supreme Court justices who understand that this decision was a disaster for our democracy. And I will fight for other progressive reforms, including small-dollar matching and disclosure requirements." The appeal to Sanders supporters was not subtle: "Now, I know many of the people in this room supported Senator Sanders in the primary," Clinton said. "You've helped put political and campaign finance reform at the top of the national agenda and I intend to keep it there." Clinton also pledged, via executive order, to force companies with federal contracts to disclose their political spending, notes USA Today.