Supreme Court Blocks Key Part of Campaign Law

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from NRSC v FEC

This is a crazy way to think about politics: that it is "central" to democracy to translate money into “ingratiation and access” : that this is what it means to govern ourselves. It is this, not money = speech, that explains what is so wrong about this entire line of cases, laid out very baldly here

https://bsky.app/profile/genevievela.../3mpob4dp4rk2f

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tl;dr

SCOTUS removed restrictions on dark money and coordinated spending

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US states and people power

Alaska's GOP governor earlier this year vetoed a bill that would have set limits to individual campaign donations.

Then what happened?

Voters on Tuesday approved a citizen-led ballot initiative that ins utes very similar reforms. By a 40%+ margin.

https://boltsmag.org/measure-1-alask...ign-donations/