A few days ago, The Supreme Court lead by Chief Justice Roberts, declared the restriction on donations to Political Parties, and PACs are unconstitutional. Now, it is entirely legal for people to dump as much money as they want into a parties' campaign ads, and support. Acts like this have been restricted by the BCRA (Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act e.i. McCain-Feingold Act) an Act highly supported by Senator John McCain, restricting the amount of "hard money" that could be donated to Parties, PACs, and individual candidates during an election cycle, and also completely restricted "soft money", or cash-in-hand. This has caused an uproar among many liberals.The fear is that this will give the rich too much influence on the decisions of elections. If a candidate is given a lot of money, there may be some exchanges of favors for that money. This is a large worry, since the decision makes the offense of corruption a very limited and restricted definition. This could also be somewhat of a good thing, being that an underdog candidate could find some good connections and become heard throughout the mass media, which could heavily influence elections.
Though this decision is rather favorable towards the wealthy, and can be seen as a stunt to muzzle the less fortunate, there could be some good done here. Do the ends justify the means? I guess we'll have to wait for the next couple elections to see what happens.
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