Right now they still have to hide behind super pacs and such.

Summarizing the article: two cases determined that money is speech, and corporations have personhood (thus can make speech through money). Citizens united allowed unlimited money to be funneled through quote-unquote ‘independent’ political committees. Now the case is being pushed through that will allow the committees of political parties to coordinate much more closely with a candidate (and if you look at the details of the ‘defense’ it’s horrific), and there’s a case pushing back against bribery convictions (which is itself following a string of high profile bribery cases being overturned by the supreme court), particularly ones tied to gifts and money thrown an officials…

so basically we’re losing the ability to even consider corruption/bribery against officials, and the political parties themselves can be a funnel for a politician. So now you can buy the politician by buying the party, which will lead to such lovely outcomes, I’m sure, and potentially allow much more direct bribery. Shit, the article even references how trump’s $1billion request from oil companies is being ignored. Talk about a fucked up country.

Came here to say this. If we can figure it out, it’s not much of a secret.