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by skhunted 718 days ago
What does Super PAC spending have to do with what the ruling was “about?”

The logic used and the wording of the ruling are what are important in SCOTUS decisions. The impact is what matters and the impact was a massive rise in spending by billionaires. It is a well known phenomenon that spending matters in campaigns and allowing a few people to control an outsized amount of that spending is what Citizens United paved the way for.