One thing is certain: Other offers are no doubt pouring in now that Casey is free to profit from her story.

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Valeo in 1976 and in more recent cases, the court essentially equated campaign money with free speech and outlawed any efforts to restrict interest groups from pouring money into "issues" advertising that helps their chosen candidates.

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That ruling, which also banned any limits on candidates' expenditure on free-speech grounds, has bedevilled attempts to curb the huge amounts of cash pouring into American politics, and it remains an obstacle to most current proposals for campaign-finance reform.

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