Asserting that independent expenditures don't cause "harm" in terms of corruption or the appearance of corruption is arbitrary. In fact, independent expenditur

Asserting that independent expenditures don't cause "harm" in terms of corruption or the appearance of corruption is arbitrary. In fact, independent expenditures are quite likely to lead to excessively favorable treatment even in the absence of an explicit quid pro quo. Limiting campaign contributions is a limit on speech, and limiting independent expenditures is also a limit on speech. Those that insist that one causes harm and the other does not have merely arrogated to themselves the right to define "harm".