Supreme Court to hear appeal on campaign donation limits

The Supreme Court will hear a challenge to campaign finance laws limiting how much an individual can give to political campaigns.

The justices on Tuesday decided to hear an appeal from Shaun McCutcheon of Alabama and the Republican National Committee. They are arguing that it's unconstitutional to stop a donor from giving more than $46,200 to political candidates and $70,800 to political committees and PACs.

McCutcheon says he accepts that he can only give $2,500 to a single candidate but says he should be able to give that amount to as many GOP candidates as he wants.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the limits, but the high court decided to review that decision.

[nearl451]

"Citizen's United" is proving a slippery slope in ever hoping that election campaigns may ever again be a sensible debate of ideas on a playing field where all voices have a chance to be heard.

Just because Adelson was somewhat successful in buying Israeli politics through uncompetitive business practices, doesn't mean we should allow the practice here.

Must we be subjected to the voices of only the utlrarich in future elections? Is there no refuge fromthe din and barrage?

[stamicrach]

If McCutcheon can afford to give large amounts of money to SuperPacs, political committees and $2,500 to as many candidates as he wants; I vote he does not need his salary.

The GOP has been practicing "divide and conquer" and "obstructionism" for the last four years.

This is taxpayer money.

I object to my money being used to buy any political candidate into office.

We have already paid these dimwits once, and I see no reason to pay them twice with political contributions.

The only way to solve the problems with Congress and the Senate is to get rid of them; NOW.

Eliminate bi-partisanship.

It couldn't be more obvious it isn't working anymore to even up the political playing field.

Put all political contributions into one central fund; then divide these funds equally and force these bought-and-paid-for crooks to run on their platforms only.

No lobbyists, no huge corporate donations.

See how many of them are still willing to knock one another out of the way to get into Office then.

Our government is broken; broken by Obama, Congress and the Senate.

Let them FIX it on an equal basis.

[vernique3]

its called buying an election. The supreme court agreed that corporations are people so they will probably agree to allow elections to be bought. the end of democracy.

[nawillis]

Throwing money at political candidates didn't help the GOP as much as they wanted in the last election, did it?

[qyeteye]

This is America.

We buy and sale everything. Congress is no exception...obviously.