Travis Trawick, CEO of FullPAC, told The Center Square the high court’s decision could unleash billions of dollars into campaigns throughout the country. He said the ruling could allow more billionaires to invest in political campaigns across the country, a trend recently seen by Elon Musk.

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    Here’s an NPR article on it: https://www.npr.org/2026/06/30/nx-s1-5827039/supreme-court-campaign-finance

    Backed by the Trump Justice Department, they contended that the only justification for imposing a fundraising limit on parties is to prevent corruption, but they maintained that there is no evidence that the law has prevented corruption.

    We had the world’s richest man purchase his own government organization in the last election, but somehow we’re not worried about corruption?

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      “we are so corrupt this anti-corruption law didn’t stop us, so we are going to rescind the law because obviously it’s not working.”

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      They also had changed the definition of corruption so you have to very explicitly state the quid for quo, decided to free the old sleazebag speaker of the state house of New York, historically the most corrupt state in the country. That was like 15 years ago I think or something. But they made a couple of follow up rulings making it even more difficult to prosecute corrupt politicians and businessman.

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      We had the world’s richest man purchase his own government organization in the last election, but somehow we’re not worried about corruption?

      These are the same sacks of crap that literally said it was not OK to get a payment in advance for them to rule your way… but if they rule your way and you want to thank them with a gift after the fact, then it’s all A-OK