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Of course! It is all so clear now!

The reasons to seat the Supreme Court with ideologues and yes men! We've seen the same 5 judges and their conservative activism from the bench, unabashedly vote pro-corporate, pro-establishment, and most recently pro-white.

Rather than publish an opinion at the end of the term as expected in an obscure campaign finance case, Citizens United v. FEC, the court issued a rare order for re-argument of the case in September! Before the usual start of their term.
At that point, the court will consider whether to overrule its two previous decisions that in 1990 and 2003 upheld limits on corporate spending in federal elections.

The ramifications are fairly obvious given the corporatist leanings of the 5 conservative judges.

Given their conservative activism, there is a great chance the justices will use the opportunity to overrule limits on how much money corporations can spend supporting candidate.

I'll say that another way.

In addition to the legalized bribes Lobbyists give politicians to curry favor, now the corporations themselves, can spend unlimited amounts to get their preferred candidates elected!

Obama earned $600 million from individual citizen campaign contributions in the 2008 election.
McCain trailed him by a lot. Monsanto for example could pay all of the campaign costs, effectively buying the new president's favor.

( Background on Citizens United: )

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