Who needs a middleman? Judge decides to put Citizen’s United on steroids:

“For better or worse, Citizens United held that there is no distinction between an individual and a corporation with respect to political speech,” Judge Cacheris wrote in his opinion. “Thus, if an individual can make direct contributions within [the law’s] limits, a corporation cannot be banned from doing the same thing.”

Prosecutors claimed that overturning the ban on direct corporate contributions would ignore a century of legal precedent, AP reports.

“Defendants would have the court throw out a century of jurisprudence upholding the ban on corporate political contributions, by equating expenditures—which the Court struck down in Citizens United—with contributions. This is, however, equating apples and oranges,” prosecutor Mark Lytle wrote in court papers.