Supreme Court strikes down coordinated spending limits between parties and candidates
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Pema Levy
3d ago· 7 min readenNews
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The Supreme Court struck down campaign finance limits on coordinated spending between political parties and candidates, in a 6-3 party-line decision. The ruling allows parties to spend unlimited sums in coordination with candidates, effectively enabling wealthy donors to bypass direct contribution caps by routing money through party committees. This marks another step in the Roberts Court's long-term effort to deregulate money in politics.
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· 3 pulledThe Supreme Court on Tuesday struck down yet another campaign finance restriction in what has become its years-long aim to obliterate regulations governing money in politics.
In a decision that broke down along party lines, the six Republican appointees lifted limits on how much parties and candidates could spend in coordination with each other.
The decision will effectively allow wealthy donors to circumvent caps on direct giving to candidates by routing funds through the party, which can now spend the entire sum in coordination with
Another win for billionaires. Another loss for democracy.
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