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The little-known Supreme Court case that made Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign possible — and doomed Kamala Harris’s. interc.pt/2PjJqLb
The little-known Supreme Court case that made Michael Bloomberg’s presidential campaign possible — and doomed Kamala Harris’s. interc.pt/2PjJqLb
Michael Bloomberg's presidential campaign wasn't made possible by Citizens United, but by a far-less known 1976 Supreme Court decision in Buckley v Valeo, which struck down laws that would have limited Bloomberg's spending to about $275K of his own money theintercept.com/2019/12/06/kam…
Bloomberg's presidential run was made possible by a 1976 Supreme Court decision which held that striking down limits on the super-rich self-funding their own campaigns would make politics LESS corrupt theintercept.com/2019/12/06/kam… 
If a 1976 Supreme Court decision hadn't struck down limits to the super-rich self-funding their own campaigns, Bloomberg could now only spend $275K of his own money. Instead, he may spend $500 million, or ~2,000 that, before anyone votes in the primaries. theintercept.com/2019/12/06/kam…
Michael Bloomberg's — and Tom Steyer's, and Donald Trump's — self-funded campaigns were made possible by a 1976 Supreme Court decision. One of the main forces behind the case was a young GOP lawyer named John Bolton. theintercept.com/2019/12/06/kam…
