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How a Supreme Court decision rewrote the rules on political spending
New reporting traces how post-Watergate limits on money in politics were weakened and how wealthy donors gained a broad right to spend…
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A concise examination of how a 1976 Supreme Court decision weakened post-Watergate limits and set the stage for modern billionaire-funded politics