WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is considering a Republican-led drive, backed by President Donald Trump’s administration, to overturn a quarter-century-old decision and erase limits on how much political parties can spend in coordination with candidates for Congress and president.

A day after the justices indicated they would overturn a 90-year-old decision limiting the president’s power to fire independent agency heads, the court on Tuesday is revisiting a 2001 decision that upheld a provision of federal election law that is more than 50 years old.

Democrats are calling on the court to uphold the law.

The limits stem from a desire to prevent large donors from skirting caps on individual contributions to a candidate by directing unlimited sums to the party, with the understanding that the money will be spent on behalf of the candidate.

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    12 hours ago

    it’s not wild at all and the ruling class has been expecting it; that’s why they build safety bunkers for themselves.

    that’s also why they’re suppressing news stories of copy-cat shooters; a huge majority are still unaware that more ceo’s have been targeted and shot like this.

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      10 hours ago

      Can’t argue with you on that. To me it felt wild watching how enthusiastically people of all political stripes came together in support of the shooting and in support of Luigi.

      And it felt wild that there was a little bit of a chink in the armor of the mighty US health care insurance cartel.