GOP Begs Supreme Court To Let It Flood Airwaves With Cheap Midterm Propaganda

Back in June, the Supreme Court ruled 6–3 in National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission that federal limits on coordinated expenditures by political parties violate the First Amendment, opening the floodgates to a much broader array of political ads funded via no limit of rich assholes and their preferred dark money groups. In preparation for the ruling, Trump FCC boss Brendan Carr revised FCC “Lowest Unit Charge Requirement” rules to try and make it much cheaper for the GOP to pummel the midterm elections with less-expensive TV ads carried via the nation’s soggy assortment of right wing broadcasters (which are currently petitioning the Trump FCC to approve massive new mergers). But it...

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