Federal Election Commission v. Ted Cruz for Senate

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News Commentary, News, Government

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🗓️ 7 June 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

This week, the hosts use a variety of film and television references to try and capture the pure villainy of a recent ruling that allows candidates to "loan" their campaigns unlimited money and be paid back, with donor funds, AFTER they're elected. We're talking tie-a-damsel-to-the-tracks-twirl-your-mustache level.

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0:00.0	We will hear argument first this morning in case 2112 federal election commission versus Ted Cruz for Senate
0:13.3	Hey everyone, this is Leon from Viasco and Crowlock projects
0:17.6	On this week's episode of 5 to 4 the hosts are talking about federal election commission the Ted Cruz for Senate
0:24.9	It's a bit of a convoluted case, but basically Cruz loaned his campaign
0:31.4	260,000 dollars of his own money
0:34.2	purposefully setting up a conflict with existing election law
0:38.1	The law on question prevented campaigns from using post election donations to pay back loans
0:44.6	totaling more than a quarter million dollars
0:47.3	Senator Cruz challenged a campaign finance law that limits the use of post election funds
0:54.2	to reimburse candidates expenses and loans the court ruled that the regulation in question places a
1:01.7	burden on core political speech without proper justification
1:06.6	With a 6 to 3 vote from the court
1:09.0	Cruz prevailed in the case
1:11.2	Making it possible for donors to give elected officials large amounts of cold hard cash after they've already won
1:18.6	This is 5 to 4 podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks
1:27.2	Welcome to 5 to 4 where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have sent our civil liberties
1:34.8	into gradual decline like the quality of Netflix's movie library
1:39.8	Peter and I'm here with Michael. Hey everybody. I will say though. I watched the first
1:45.3	episode of the new Stranger Things season
1:48.7	I thought it was pretty good some good horror some good real body horror in it. Yeah, I'm ahead of you
1:54.1	I'm I finished episode two. Oh, I will say I also enjoyed it. I'm very confused at this point
1:59.6	About the Stranger Things lore like this is sci-fi is this horror like what's going on? Yeah, I'm enjoying myself
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