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Supreme’s approve Ted Cruz’s use of campaign funds to repay a personal campaign loan…

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The High Court voted 6-3 that the justices where NOT presented with one case where the money loaned by a canidate to themselves was damaging….

The ruling was about ‘Free Speech’……

The High Court has been chipping away with limits on campaign donations by unions and corporations…

Essentially?

The court IS saying if you have the money to loan to ur OWN campaign…

(Did somebody GIVE ya the money to loan to yourself?)

There is no time or amount limit

It’s your money….

The limits where put in place to stop money being used to advance political ‘goals’ that people without money could not reach or get…

That has never stopped no matter what the rules/law has been and now HOW the money is spent is changed ….

 

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled in favor of Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas in a case involving the use of campaign funds to repay personal campaign loans, dealing the latest blow to campaign finance regulations.

The court said that a federal cap on candidates using political contributions after the election to recoup personal loans made to their campaign was unconstitutional.
Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the 6-3 decision. Justice Elena Kagan wrote the dissent for her liberal colleagues, Justice Stephen Breyer and Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
“The question is whether this restriction violates the First Amendment rights of candidates and their campaigns to engage in political speech,” Roberts wrote. He said there is “no doubt” that the law does burden First Amendment electoral speech. “Any such law must be at least justified by a permissible interest,” he added, and the government had not been able to identify a single case of so-called “quid pro quo” corruption….
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Kavanaugh echoed a lower court opinion that went in favor of Cruz.
“A candidate’s loan to his campaign is an expenditure that may be used for expressive acts,” the court said in an opinion written by DC Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Neomi Rao. She and DC District Court Judges Amit Mehta and Timothy Kelly ruled unanimously.
“Such expressive acts are burdened when a candidate is inhibited from making a personal loan, or incurring one, out of concern that she will be left holding the bag on any unpaid campaign debt,” the ruling added.
Federal law allows candidate to make loans to their campaign committees without limit. The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, however, imposes a $250,000 limit on a campaign committee’s ability to repay those loans with money contributed by donors after the election.
A day before he was reelected in 2018, Cruz loaned his campaign committee $260,000, $10,000 over the limit — laying the foundation for his legal challenge to the cap….
image… Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty

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