Ari Berman

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Fresh Air · A look at new barriers at the ballot box · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

in which wealthy individuals will have more influence in the political process.

And the campaign finance decisions by the court are very similar to the decisions on the Voting Rights Act by the court, and that this wasn't the first decision by the Supreme Court, by the Roberts Court, that deregulated the campaign finance system in such a way that gives wealthy individuals far more power.

And it wasn't the first decision by the Roberts Court weakening

voting rights act.

This is now a decades-long project by the Roberts Court to give wealthy individuals more power in the political process.

At the same time, they're giving voters less power in terms of their ability to elect their representatives and to be protected from racial discrimination in voting.

Well, it's another victory for the Republican Party because the Republican Party as a party has more money than the Democratic Party.

The RNC has more money than the DNC and the Republican committees for the House and the Senate have more money than their Democratic counterparts.

What that means is they can now, for example, run TV ads on behalf of their candidates without being constrained by campaign finance limits anymore.

Right.

Whereas if a Democratic candidate previously had more money than their Republican counterpart, now the party committees are going to be able to swoop in and help those Republican candidates who might not have raised enough money for one reason or another.

And if you're a wealthy individual, you can give up to half a million dollars to a political party.

you can only give $7,000 to a candidate.

So now what wealthy individuals are going to do is they're going to route that money to political parties, kind of like they're doing with super PACs, and then it's going to be routed back in support of the candidate.

That kind of thing was made illegal after Watergate because the Congress was concerned that if a wealthy individual or some kind of group wanted to influence a candidate, they would just go through the party.

So they eliminated that as an option.

Now the Supreme Court...

in a series of decisions, has basically rolled back those post-Watergate rules that were meant to stop political corruption.

The RNC has $100 million or more of a financial advantage over the DNC right now.

I mean, the DNC has really been struggling.

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