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• SCOTUS overturned limits on money and electioneering communications

  • Removed ban on soft money and limits on ads

• More money in politics

• Created super PACs, which didn’t need to report total money, only spending

  • Dark money and dark ads

• PACs reported total but not spending

• Against the 1st amendment free speech to limit soft money and ads

  • Corporations were like people

• Overturned stuff from BCRA (2002)

  • Banned soft money and raised limits on hard money

    • Hard money was given to a PAC or candidate and regulated by FEC

    • Soft money was harder to regulate, typically given to a party

  • Limited electioneering communications (ads)

    • 60 days before an election and 30 days before a primary

  • FEC manages laws about elections