The Supreme Court’s election-buying decision in Citizens United v. FEC
enabled wealthy corporations to spend unlimited money to change the
course of American elections, and a subsequent lower court decision gave
the green light to super PACs
funded by unlimited donations from millionaires, billionaires and
corporations. Today, the Supreme Court announced it would hear another
case — brought by none other than the Republican National Committee —
that would go even further towards transforming American democracy into
the Wild West.
Despite recent election-buying decisions permitting unlimited
donations to super PACs and other groups that exist independently of
campaigns and political parties, federal law still limits individual
donations to candidates and to the parties themselves. In the next
election cycle, these limits include a $2,600 cap on individual
donations to a single candidate, and an overall limit of $123,200 in contributions
to candidates, political party committees and similar organizations.
The Republican Party’s lawsuit seeks to eliminate most of these limits
on election-buying — most importantly, by removing the $123,200 cap on
total contributions.
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