http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/10/08/2750331/the-shady-trick-justice-scalia-plans-to-use-to-inject-even-more-big-money-into-elections/
WASHINGTON, DC — The Supreme Court’s consideration Tuesday of a bid by the Republican National Committee to make it easier for wealthy individuals to influence elections fixated on a series of related hypotheticals, all involving schemes enabling the very rich to lavish money on their favorite party or candidates. In Justice Elena Kagan’s version, activists set up literally hundreds of shell organizations, each of which promises to work to elect like-minded candidates in the five most contested U.S. Senate races. A donor then makes a maximum-dollar donation to each of these shell groups, effectively laundering hundreds of thousands of dollars to each of these five grateful candidates. Thus, although federal law bans massive dollar donations to individual candidates in order to prevent corruption, Kagan’s hypothetical offers a way around that law.And if the Supreme Court gives the GOP what it is asking for, this money laundering scheme will almost certainly be legal.
this is what happens when you elect republicans with controversial mindsets you get elected for life SCOTUS's that act as extreme as their appointers, you cannot interpret law for "we the people" from a republican minded stance we are many different mindsets that by itself is dangerous but to rigg it with those same right wing believers is rejection of all of America, because those same justices will vote against their bases well being too, it's about big money appeasement by right wing court.
The specific issue in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission (a businessman named Shaun McCutcheon is also a plaintiff in the case, along with the RNC) is whether two limits on how much money wealthy individuals can give to parties and candidates will survive contact with the conservative Roberts Court.Current law limits the amount rich donors can give to individual candidates (currently, $2,600) as well as the amount that they can give to party organizations. Additionally, the law also limits how much the wealthy can givealtogether to all candidates and to all party groups.Presently, these limits are$48,600 to candidates and $74,600 to PACs and party committees — for a total cap of $123,200. McCutcheon and the RNC challenge these final two caps. So they want people who have already given more than a hundred thousand dollars to Republican candidates and to GOP groups to be allowed to donate even more.The specific issue in McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission (a businessman named Shaun McCutcheon is also a plaintiff in the case, along with the RNC) is whether two limits on how much money wealthy individuals can give to parties and candidates will survive contact with the conservative Roberts Court.Current law limits the amount rich donors can give to individual candidates (currently, $2,600) as well as the amount that they can give to party organizations. Additionally, the law also limits how much the wealthy can givealtogether to all candidates and to all party groups.Presently, these limits are$48,600 to candidates and $74,600 to PACs and party committees — for a total cap of $123,200. McCutcheon and the RNC challenge these final two caps. So they want people who have already given more than a hundred thousand dollars to Republican candidates and to GOP groups to be allowed to donate even more.if thy were abiding by the law then how did Rove manage to blow 300 million they didn't have that many candidates that were worth the money, so some of that money was not used as dictated, more money leads to even more money and corruption.don't know about you but i don't want Koch bro. et al buying my govrnment i fought for 46 years ago.
if thy were abiding by the law then how did Rove manage to blow 300 million they didn't have that many candidates that were worth the money, so some of that money was not used as dictated, more money leads to even more money and corruption.
don't know about you but i don't want Koch bro. et al buying my govrnment i fought for 46 years ago.
