WASHINGTON, June 30 -- Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Courts Subcommittee, today released the following statement after the far-right majority on the Supreme Court issued a ruling in NRSC v. FEC overruling the Supreme Court's own precedent to strike down one of the few remaining anti-corruption election spending limits:
"Americans rightly despise the poisonous, corrupting dark money that is rotting our democracy. The public hates it so much that Republicans would get laughed out of Congress if they tried to repeal the few remaining guardrails against dark money and special interest influence. So instead, Republicans run to their cap...