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Federal Election Commission v. Ted Cruz for Senate

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The Politics of Political Speech

The court is talking the whole ime about the ability of candidates to le fund their own campaign and how important that is under the first amendment. If you're loaning your campaign money and then donors are paying you back, that's not self funding. That's donor fund in with an additional step, right? R iit's unbelievable,. It's donor funding. But the donors have the added benefit to them of knowing that their donations are going to a winning candidate which makes their speech even less of a corps political speech. Even if you accept that money is speech, donating to someone who already won and the election is over. I don't don't take thas cor political speech.

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