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NPR is reporting otherwise > Overby says that even with the individual candidate limit still in place, the ruling "[makes] it possible for a donor to give a pa

NPR is reporting otherwise > Overby says that even with the individual candidate limit still in place, the ruling "[makes] it possible for a donor to give a party leader a check for more than $1 million, with the money getting parceled out in $2,600 amounts to the candidates." http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/04/02/298326893/supreme-court-strikes-down-overall-limits-on-political-contributions http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2014/04/02/298326893/sup... I'm confused!

hga 13y ago
So am I (well, not that much, that NPR would make a mistake biased towards their bias, or outright lie, would be nothing new). That's another "point source", of course, but per this (now slightly out of date) chart from the FEC: http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/contriblimits.shtml http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/contriblimits.shtml there would seem to be a limit to how much you could send to a "party leader". Maybe it would have to be washed though 200 (!) "political committees" to allow for 1M in 5K max chunks ... which would seem to be a bit obvious. Although that would be a loophole the Congress could close up, assuming it exists. E.g. a limit to the total to a "party leader" or PACs he controls would fly with 8 of the Supremes.