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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.
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