In one of the most contentious rulings in recent Supreme Court history, the high court last week overturned decades of legal precedent that limited how corporations, unions, and other organizations can participate in the political process. The 5-to-4 decision is all but certain to dramatically reshape the conduct of elections in the United States, campaign finance experts say. But experts remain divided over the ways in which elections, saturated as they already are in money from various sources, will change. Read the rest of this entry »