Roll-Call’s Eliza Newlin Carney explains this latest challenge to the constitutionality of limiting the amount of money any one donor can give to candidates or parties in an election cycle.
On The Money: Waiting For McCutcheon
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January 30, 2014

Via Moyers & Company:

Will McCutcheon replay Citizens United? | Rules of the game –> Any day now the Supreme Court is expected to rule on McCutcheon v. FEC, a case that could deal another serious blow to campaign finance restrictions. Roll-Call’s Eliza Newlin Carney explains this latest challenge to the constitutionality of limiting the amount of money any one donor can give to candidates or parties in an election cycle. In Citizens United the court concluded that unlimited spending by corporations and unions wouldn’t corrupt politicians as long as it came from outside groups that weren’t coordinating with th...

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