{"id":8254,"date":"2014-04-04T08:04:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T14:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=8254"},"modified":"2014-04-04T08:04:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T14:04:03","slug":"washington-week-52","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=8254","title":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON WEEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/MCPTV26.ORG\/images\/040314_thisweek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8255\" alt=\"040314_thisweek\" src=\"http:\/\/MCPTV26.ORG\/images\/040314_thisweek-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/040314_thisweek-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/images\/040314_thisweek.jpg 474w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"LEFT\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>WITH GWEN IFILL<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>FRIDAY, APRIL 4 @ 9:00PM<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court issued a major campaign finance decision this week striking down some limits on federal campaign donations. The ruling comes four years after the court opened the door to unlimited political spending with its Citizens United decision. Supporters say striking down limits is a victory for free speech while critics say the ruling will provide a gateway to corruption. While the debate rages on, the court\u2019s ruling is expected to dramatically change the political landscape ahead of the 2014 midterm and 2016 presidential elections.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/weta\/washingtonweek\/thisweek\/040314\" target=\"_blank\"><b><br \/>\nFind out more \u00bb<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WITH GWEN IFILL FRIDAY, APRIL 4 @ 9:00PM The Supreme Court issued a major campaign finance decision this week striking down some limits on federal campaign donations. The ruling comes four years after the court opened the door to unlimited political spending with its Citizens United decision. Supporters say striking down limits is a victory &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/?p=8254\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WASHINGTON WEEK<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-program-highlights"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8256,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8254\/revisions\/8256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcptv26.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}