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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSupreme Court strikes down campaign loan repayment limits
In a 6-3 ruling, the court said the law, adopted in 2002, was a violation of a political candidates free expression, applying longstanding rulings that said because money buys the ability to spread a political message, limits on expenditures implicate the First Amendment.
Under the law at issue, candidates who contributed money to their own campaigns could be paid back from the pool of other campaign contributions. But the repayments were capped at $250,000.
Sen Cruz loaned his re-election campaign $260,000 intentionally going above the limit in order to trigger a legal challenge when then-Rep. Beto ORourke ran against him in 2018.
https://news.yahoo.com/victory-sen-ted-cruz-supreme-141503602.html
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spanone
(136,026 posts)👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼👎🏼
jimfields33
(16,334 posts)I think this would happen to both parties.
former9thward
(32,241 posts)Candidates from both parties do it. And if the candidate money is not repaid then yes, they lose that money.
RANDYWILDMAN
(2,684 posts)Bigly
Anybody think Texas Ted has all us little people in mind with this case ? Ya NO
dalton99a
(81,797 posts)Walleye
(31,240 posts)dalton99a
(81,797 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,055 posts)Roland99
(53,342 posts)All of them
Takket
(21,769 posts)What does this mean? Should we care about how a losing candidate spends their post election donations?
In It to Win It
(8,347 posts)Takket
(21,769 posts)The way the article was written I didnt understand.
It seems to me loaning money to your own campaign should not even be legal. You want to donate your own money, go right ahead.
I dont see how a freedom of expression argument holds up nothing is stopping you from donating to your own campaign.
Liberal In Texas
(13,650 posts)Because you just can't have enough bought and sold government.
Fullduplexxx
(7,894 posts)Johonny
(21,041 posts)right?
Novara
(5,904 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Last edited Mon May 16, 2022, 01:07 PM - Edit history (1)
democratic majority, 81 million voters last counted.
Subversive LWers will never been able to "dismantle" and/or take over, as they so foolishly imagine, any more than they can create their own forever-desired party, for the same reasons. But they can sabotage. And do.
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