WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is considering a Republican-led drive, backed by President Donald Trump’s administration, to overturn a quarter-century-old decision and erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president.
A day after the justices indicated they would overturn a 90-year-old decision limiting the president’s power to fire independent agency heads, the court on Tuesday is revisiting a 2001 decision that upheld a provision of federal election law that is more than 50 years old.
Democrats are calling on the court to uphold the law.
The limits stem from a desire to prevent large donors from skirting caps on individual contributions to a candidate by directing unlimited sums to the party, with the understanding that the money will be spent on behalf of the candidate.
Can’t argue with you on that. To me it felt wild watching how enthusiastically people of all political stripes came together in support of the shooting and in support of Luigi.
And it felt wild that there was a little bit of a chink in the armor of the mighty US health care insurance cartel.
this and the no-kings marches show that there’s A LOT of kindling for a revolutionary fire and that the armor of the ruling class has small holes in it.
our wealth gap inequality is already worse than that of the pre-french-revolution era; gaza, trump and epstein are showing us that we have an autocracy that is rivaling pre-revolution tsarist russia; and the last half century of repeated episodes of the democrats capitulating to republicans’ demands to dismantle the welfare state as well as intense levels of education, healthcare, and household debts proves that our peasantry is reaching pre-revolutionary levels of china.
however the ruling classes’ propaganda game is still VERY strong and sophisticated enough to keep this asshattery going for atleast another generation or three and there’s no bigger sign of this than the self fulfilling manufactured narrative that we must keep voting for the political duopoly that makes all of this happen despite living, breathing proof at the american southern border that we can start to change things by simply voting 3rd party.