Supreme Court: McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission

In a 5-4 de­cision, the court’s con­ser­vat­ive ma­jor­ity struck down Wa­ter­gate-era ag­greg­ate lim­its that barred polit­ic­al donors from giv­ing more than $123,000 a year in total to can­did­ates run­ning for seats in the House of Rep­res­ent­at­ives or Sen­ate.