As recently stated by Senator Warren (MA), the SCOTUS is fast becoming a subsidiary of US corporations... jz
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The Supreme Court, in a new campaign funding case, may lift a lid on the total the wealthy can give to all candidates and parties.
By David G. Savage
September 21, 2013, 7:24 p.m.
WASHINGTON — In what may be Act 2 in the decline and fall of campaign funding laws, the Supreme Court appears poised to lift the lid on the total amount the wealthy can give directly to all candidates and political parties.
Increasingly, the money that funds election races for
Congress and the presidency comes from a small sliver of the very rich, what the Sunlight Foundation called the "elite class that serves as gatekeepers of public office in the United States." The nonpartisan group has tracked how a growing share of election money comes from the top 1% of the wealthiest Americans.
In the first major case of its new term, the court could give those donors even more clout with lawmakers and their parties. The issue is whether federal limits, not on contributions to individual races but on how much a donor can give to all candidates for Congress or party committees in a particular election cycle, violate the right of free speech.
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