Outside Expenditures

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/3/2021
  

  The Far Right’s Big Money Strategy Has Poisoned Our Politics

  by Marc C. Johnson

  The 1976 Supreme Court decision in Buckley v. Valeo ruled that spending money to influence a campaign is free speech, launching the era of big money in politics long before the much-maligned decision in Citizens United v. FEC.