The Supreme Court yet again loosened campaign finance restrictions on Tuesday by striking down limits on how much political parties may raise and spend on candidates.
By a 6-to-3 vote along ideological lines, the court ruled the law, which had been enacted in 1974, violates political parties’ First Amendment rights. Justice Brett Kavanaugh wrote the majority opinion.
At issue in the case was a post-Watergate law that Congress passed to limit the amount of money individuals can give to political parties. The law, the Federal Election Campaign Act, also limited how much money political parties can spend on their candidates. Other types of organizations, like political action committees and Super PACs, have no limits on the amount of money they can raise and spend on elections. But unlike parties, they cannot coordinate with candidates.
So now the handful of people with all the money don’t even need to put on the mask of creating a PAC, fucking hell…
SCOTUS: you know what this cesspool needs? more feces!, yes, that will fix things
Money is not speech.
what with the supreme court seeming to be doing nothing and then like a dozen decisions at once. I don’t recall them ever working in this way before.
Probably to flood the news so the bad stuff gets washed over quickly. Too much to react to so opposition is weakened and scattered. More shitty fascist tactics.
yeah I just can’t imagine how they are doing these trials like that. Its like change subject for not only each hour of the day but also each day of the week. Im guessing the sane judges on the bench are pissed about this schedule but likely the chief justice gets to set the schedule.
Then everything else is worthless because this is THE PROBLEM
