The Associated Press also reported Wednesday:

The Supreme Court signaled Wednesday it may let businesses and unions spend freely to help their favored candidates in time for next year’s elections. Such a step could roll back a century of attempts to restrain the power of corporate treasuries in American politics…

The court heard arguments for the second time in a case that began as a dispute over whether a conservative group’s 90-minute movie that harshly criticized Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign should be regulated as a campaign ad. The court’s request for a new argument on broader questions turned the case into a test of whether two earlier high court decisions should be reversed.