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Daily Beast: The Right is Dominating the Dark-Money Game. Palalalain Ito ni Kavanaugh.

Buweno, ang mga konserbatibo ay nakatuon sa mga limitasyong ito sa loob ng mahabang panahon. Ayon kay Paul Seamus Ryan mula sa Common Cause, dalawang kaso ng mga kontribusyon-limitasyon ang kasalukuyang may certiorari petition sa Korte Suprema, isa mula sa Montana at isa mula sa Texas. "Ang mga limitasyon ng parehong hurisdiksyon ay pinagtibay ng mga korte ng sirkito—at ang mga nagsasakdal/nagpetisyon sa parehong mga kaso ay humihiling sa Korte Suprema na dinggin ang kanilang mga kaso at ideklara ang hinamon na mga limitasyon sa kontribusyon na labag sa konstitusyon," sabi ni Ryan sa akin noong Miyerkules.

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The other day, Missouri Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill—locked in a tight race against a Republican challenger who’s a leading plaintiff in a lawsuit that would deny health coverage to 2.5 million Missourians, is extremely anti-abortion, and is generally one of the harder-right Senate candidates running this cycle—said an interesting thing.

At an appearance at Missouri State University in Springfield, when asked about Brett Kavanaugh, McCaskill suggested that his posture on Roe v. Wade was maybe not her No. 1 concern. What was instead?

Campaign finance law. “So there are some voters that the only issue they care about is outlawing all abortions, and there are other voters that the only issue they care about is keeping access to abortion legal,” McCaskill told reporters. “What is more common is a large number of people concerned about dark money.”

Roe v. Wade is awfully important, make no mistake about that. But McCaskill’s point deserves a few minutes of your time. The reality of the dark money situation is terrifying and can best be put like this: If Kavanaugh is confirmed, the last remaining campaign finance limitations are almost certainly dead, and this country will soon become an outright oligarchy—a government by the few. …

Right now, there are basically no limits on spending. Spending is speech, remember? There are, however, still limits on contributions—basically, $2,700 per election. This limit has been in place since the early 1970s, and the Supreme Court upheld it in 1976’s Buckley v. Valeo.

Well, conservatives have had their sights set on these limits for a long time. According to Paul Seamus Ryan from Common Cause, two contributions-limits cases currently have certiorari petitions before the Supreme Court, one from Montana and the other from Texas (you can read up on the Montana case dito, and the Texas case dito). “Both jurisdictions’ limits were upheld by the circuit courts—and the plaintiffs/petitioners in both cases are asking the Supreme Court to hear their cases and declare the challenged contribution limits unconstitutional,” Ryan told me Wednesday.

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