Republicans have waged a decades-long battle to blow up the campaign-finance laws that rein in big-money spending. Now, they are making a play that could end in their biggest victory since the Citizens United ruling in 2010.
The GOP is growing increasingly optimistic about their prospects in a little-noticed lawsuit that would allow official party committees and candidates to coordinate freely by removing current spending restrictions. If successful, it would represent a seismic shift in how tens of millions of campaign dollars are spent and upend a well-established political ecosystem for TV advertising.
An eventual victory in the lawsuit, filed last November by the National Republican Senatorial Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee, would eliminate the need for House and Senate campaign committees of any party to set up separate operations to make so-called independent expenditures to boost candidates with TV ads.
They really, REALLY need this, otherwise how will they manage to keep imposing deeply unpopular policies on people who hate them?!?!
Yeah but voter apathy is the biggest thing they’re counting on. I hate that I have to ensure that I vote for people who may not best represent me, because the alternative is blatant racism.
They do as long as there are ignorant people to manipulate and they’ve been working very hard to keep people ignorant.
FFS…
So that thing they already do because we have no teeth for existing compaign finance laws? Yes the court fucked us all over with citizens united on this. Just let the oligarchs be transparent with their purchases, we all know it’s how this rotted system works now.
