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Who fired the first shot? No limits on corporate spending for elections

Posted on the January 22nd, 2010

Yesterday, corporations won a game-changing victory in the U.S. Supreme Court when the justices struck down a ban limiting big biz spending on elections.

Whose brainchild was this? An article yesterday in Mother Jones profiles the Indiana lawyer, James Bopp Jr., who started it all (“The Man Who Took Down Campaign Finance Reform” Jan 21, 2010).

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