Does Corporate Money Lead to Political Corruption? - New York Times

UNLIMITED 'SPEECH' Democrats say the Supreme Court ruling last week allowing corporations to buy campaign commercials is a threat to democracy; Republicans cheered it as a victory for free speech.

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What was true in Hanna’s century remained true in the next, and since the Watergate scandal of the 1970s, Congress has imposed stricter regulations on money in politics. Advocates of those rules argue that they rein in corruption and increase public trust in government. But after more than three decades, has the system made a difference? The question took on new urgency last week as the Supreme Court threw out regulations that prohibited corporations from buying campaign commercials that explicitly advocate the election or defeat of candidates. Democrats called the ruling a threat to democracy; Republicans cheered it as a victory for free speech.

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