More on WRTL: Did Supreme Court open the door to more corporate money in politics?

Institute for Law and Politics Advisory Board Member Rick Hasen has additional analysis of today's WRTL v. FEC decision by the Supreme Court on the ElectionLawBlog.

From Professor Hasen's post:

"...[T]he limit on corporate and union spending is now dead as a practical matter. The test that Roberts/Alito embrace is essentially the same...approach of the lower court: if an ad can be viewed as not about electing a candidate (and instead about an issue), it must be viewed that way and exempt from the PAC requirement."

Assuming Professor Hasen's interpretation of today's opinion is correct, the 2008 elections will likely be drastically more expensive and divisive than most of us have been anticipating.

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