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Quote from said article: >The ruling had a major impact on campaign finance, allowing unlimited election spending by corporations and labor unions and fueling
by ddevault 6y ago
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>The ruling had a major impact on campaign finance, allowing unlimited election spending by corporations and labor unions and fueling the rise of Super PACs. Later rulings by the Roberts Court, including McCutcheon v. FEC (2014), would strike down other campaign finance restrictions.
CU rolled out the red carpet for corporate interests to install their cronies into office, who then worked to further erode any protections against political bribery - which is exactly what Google is doing in this thread.
- tptacek 6y agoAs 'tzs points out, corporate employee PACs were not unlawful before CU, which, at any rate, had little to do with employee PACs. There were any number of ways you could have learned this, but one obvious way would be to compare the date of the CU decision with the date of the creation of Google NetPAC.