


On January 21, 2010, the Court announced its 5-4 decision in the Citizens United case, overturning a century of restrictions banning corporations and unons form spending all they waned to elect candiadates. This endeavor was supported by a tiny fraction of the wealthies families in America, who sould now spend thier entire fortunes influencing the country's politics.

Over over thirty years, David and his brother worked quietyly to build an ideological institution aht woudl resemble and rival those of the two major political parties. It would take years before the faint outlines of the Koch's massive political machinations began to surface, but a decision by the Supreme Court four months earlier launched the familh's voert spending into a new, more ambitious phase. Chapter 9 - Money Is Speech: The Long Road to Citizens United
