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To: Starwind
"So, clearly, a liberal majority is quite willing under what they consider to be reasonable circumstances, to restrict a freedom to spend money on political campaigns."

"We hold that a party's coordinated expenditures, unlike expenditures truly independent, may be restricted to minimize circumvention of contribution limits,"

SCOTUS is talking about "Party" spending, not individual spending, nor are they talking about PAC's or citizen's groups.

Tne Party has no rights, only individuals have rights.

837 posted on 06/05/2002 11:42:37 PM PDT by Luis Gonzalez
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Yes, in that cited case they were.

The point of citing that case was to show the courts predisposition to limit campaign spending and the makeup of the split on the bench, and who the swing justices likely were.

Will the court split again for ad bans? That I addressed in a previous post.

844 posted on 06/05/2002 11:50:57 PM PDT by Starwind
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