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Supreme Court Says Democracy Is for Sale to the Highest Bidder

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kirkspencer4/02/2014 10:43:16 am PDT

OK, some brakes on the ‘unlimited spending’ remarks.

per candidate spending is still limited, and the court emphasized that was legitimate.

What broke was aggregate spending. Yes, that’s bad. It means a person or organization can put money in every single race. There is some increased leverage due to echo.

But a donor cannot send unlimited money to, say, Cruz for President. Not personally and directly. (And limits both as a PAC and as a ‘general’ subject were already released some time ago.)