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The Supreme Court delves into campaign finance again

2025/7/4
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Nick Newman
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David Kolker: 我认为，如果我和候选人协调竞选广告的内容，这实际上等同于我直接给候选人捐款，因此会受到相应的限制。例如，我可以随意花钱说“投票给简·史密斯当总统”，只要我不和她协调，这都是没有限制的。但如果我和她协调，比如我说“史密斯女士，我想做一个广告来突出你对枪支管制的看法”，她说“太棒了，请做吧”，那么我们就构成协调了。最高法院过去曾表示，由于存在协调，腐败的可能性就像我直接给她开支票一样大。所以，当存在协调时，它等同于捐款，因此会受到限制。如果最高法院支持共和党的挑战，认为协调资金限制违反了言论自由规则，这将导致来自多个方向的竞选资金激增。如果政党可以接受大量捐款并用于支持候选人，这将导致规避直接捐款限制的行为。如果政党可以接受你的钱，然后无限制地花钱来支持候选人，那么你向政党捐款以帮助候选人的动机就会增加。

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The Supreme Court is revisiting campaign finance laws, potentially overturning the existing limits on coordinated spending between political parties and candidates. This could lead to a significant increase in campaign funds and influence.
  • Supreme Court revisiting campaign finance laws
  • Potential overturning of limits on coordinated spending
  • Possible surge in campaign money from multiple directions
  • Circumvention of existing contribution limits

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Changes in the interpretation of campaign finance law could be on the horizon. It's been 15 years since the high court decided that corporations and unions can give unlimited amounts of money to candidates. But political parties have to work within separate limits when it's money used in tandem by the party and the candidate. Also on the show: the state of news consumption in the U.S. and a new approach to homeless encampments in Northern California.