Description:Everybody and their brother - even Stephen Colbert - is freaking out about "super PACs" which are an outgrowth of the Citzens United decision in 2010.
Traditional political action committees (PACs) are subject to federal limits on how much money donors can give in specific election cycles. Super PACS allow groups such as nonprofit corporations and unions to spend unlimited money on political speech as long as they don’t coordinate their activity with the official campaign of a given candidate.(3:10)