After the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) and a Federal Court of Appeals ruling in Speechnow v. FEC (2010), a new type of organization came into existence to take advantage of the new rules. Known officially as "independentexpenditure only committees," the new bodies were soon dubbed

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After the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (2010) and a Federal Court of Appeals ruling in Speechnow v. FEC (2010), a new type of organization came into existence to take advantage of the new rules. Known officially as "independent­expenditure only committees," the new bodies were soon dubbed

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The term "super PACs" refers to independent-expenditure only committees that can raise and spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections, following the Citizens United and Speechnow decisions.

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