| inbluevt | Date: Monday, 2013/08/05, 10:15 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court opened the floodgates to corporate political contributions for "independent electioneering" in 2010's Citizens United vs. FEC, practically drowning federal political campaigns in money.
Now the same five-justice majority that held sway in Citizens United may be poised to loosen restrictions on campaign finance even further.
The justices are set to hear an appeal next term brought by an Alabama man, Shaun McCutcheon, and the Republican National Committee. They are challenging what are called "aggregate limits" -- the
restrictions on the total amount of contributions that can be given directly during a particular two-year election cycle.
The Federal Election Campaign Act sets up separate limits on the amounts that individuals may contribute to federal candidates and other political committees, some indexed for inflation.
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Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Kennedy wrote the majority opinion in 2010's Citizens United vs. FEC, effectively ending the restrictions
on political contributions from the general funds of corporations and
unions for independent electioneering. UPI/Roger L. Wollenberg
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