Supreme Court Rules For No Limits On Corporate Political Donations
The AFL-CIO filed a brief in support of lifting restrictions on corporate and union spending on independent expenditures. On January 21, the U.S. Supreme Court eliminated spending limits on independent expenditures on a 5-4 vote—a controversial ruling that wiped out three precedents on campaign spending controls. The court’s rightist majority also took the position that campaign spending is a form of free speech and that corporations are entitled to the same unlimited rights as people.
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