The only possible silver lining of the reactionary John Roberts' Court—itself brought into being by billionaires and dark money—is that perhaps it will fuel a fresh wave of citizen activism to overturn these regressive rulings.
joined Brown at Citizens United where they worked alongside Koch-funded groups to block Democratic proposals, such as the health care reforms proposed by Bill and Hillary Clinton. Bossie is now more widely known as a senior Trump advisor in 2016 and 2020.
BCRA was a multi-year effort to limit dark money spending that was eluding the donation limits and disclosure requirements of the “Federal Election Campaign Act,” the Nixon era reform that had replaced the inadequate “Federal Corruption Act.” BCRA’s measures were rooted in the Senate investigation of dark money operations like “Triad,” which was linked to Charles Koch long before he became a household name for his political spending.
Roberts tapped Justice Anthony Kennedy to pen the ruling. On January 20, 2010, the Court issued a 5-4 decision that struck down BCRA’s most important protections against dark money. Usually Supreme Court decisions are issued in the summer, but this partisan ruling was timed to fall on future presidential inauguration days. The date also maximized the ability of dark money groups to influence the primary and the general elections in the 2010 midterms.
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