The Supreme Court on Tuesday erased limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president, striking down a federal election law that is more than 50 years old.

Prodded by a Republican-led lawsuit that includes Vice President JD Vance, the court’s conservative justices were again in the majority of the latest decision that upended congressionally enacted limits on raising and spending money to influence elections. The court’s 2010 Citizens United decision opened the door to unlimited independent spending in federal elections.

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    5 days ago

    You can’t eat them all but you can definitely eat one or two. There’s only a few dozen of them.

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      I think at this point there are thousands of billionaires in the world. Most just fly under the radar and live lives insulated from interacting with regular folks.