The U.S. Supreme Court’s invalidation in McCutcheon of the hypertechnical, impossible-to-understand limits and sublimits on contributions to federal political parties, candidates and political action committees strikes a blow in favor of freedom. Donors can now decide how many candidates, PACs and party committees they choose to support, rather than being held hostage to some arbitrary scheme developed by a small group of elitist campaign finance jihadists in Washington.
The law at issue allowed a single donor to give the maximum contribution to nine federal candidates. The court found that there is no constitutionally permissible basis for Congress to conclude that allowing a donor to give the same amount to a tenth candidate is “corrupting.”
