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A legal war has been waged since the campaign finance reforms that followed the Watergate scandals, when Congress passed the bedrock for our modern money-in-politics regulatory regime. And while reformers have notched significant victories, deep-pocketed deregulators have slowly chipped away at major provisions by challenging them all the way to the Supreme Court. Here’s a look at how we got here, to a system where unlimited and often undisclosed cash is used to directly influence modern elections.

Note: This slide deck starts in the year 1971 and run thru 2014. Easy to read summation of the rules etc.


https://www.publicintegrity.org/2017/11/15/21255/modern-history-campaign-finance-watergate-citizens-united




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