Comment by sokoloff
3 hours ago
> no "I'm a billionaire so I can spend as much as I want on myself"
To me, that would seem extremely difficult for Congress to pass a law restricting individual speech in this particular way that would pass First Amendment muster, and I don’t think we should be at “let’s just set aside the Constitution when it clearly says something we don’t like” because I don’t think that ends well in today’s political climate (or any other, but it’s especially bad now).
We already have laws that limit how much you can give to someone else’s campaign. We’ve already crossed that threshold in terms of “free speech”.
Passing a law that restricts the amount of my own money that I can spend talking about myself seems especially directly a 1A violation.