Supreme Court ruling gives big money more clout

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January 22, 2010 - 12:00 AM

Thursday the U.S. Supreme Court overruled the 2002 McCain-Feingold law that prohibited corpo-rations from running campaign ads advocating the election or defeat of a candidate within 30 days of a primary election or 60 days of a general election. The five conservative members of the court opposed the four liberal members in the historic decision.
The majority ruled that corporations, like individuals, were guaranteed the right under the constitution to support any political candidate up to Election Day.
The minority argued that giving corporations that right would give too…

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