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April 2, 2015

Activists Protest McCutcheon Decision inside Supreme Court 
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Activists have carried out a rare protest inside the U.S. Supreme Court
chamber to oppose the ruling in Mc Cutcheon v. FEC, a case critics call
"next Citizens United." In a 5-to-4 vote one year ago, the court’s
conservative justices eliminated a long-standing limit on how much
donors can give in total to federal candidates, party committees,
political action committees in a two-year election cycle. Without any
aggregate limit, a donor can now give millions directly to candidates
and parties. On Wednesday, the five activists with the group 99 Rise
stood up inside the court to call on justices to reverse their decision.

 

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