absolutely, it's congress' fault too for not creating new election funding laws you're right that CU didn't directly open the floodgates, though it did immedia

absolutely, it's congress' fault too for not creating new election funding laws you're right that CU didn't directly open the floodgates, though it did immediately unlock the option for companies to spend from their general funds without limit But the bigger problem was SCOTUS' decision provided the reasoning that downstream courts could rely on in their decisions, and _those_ opened the floodgates (Speechnow.org vs FEC specifically)