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Supreme Court Hits Campaign Fund Curbs

A majority of Supreme Court justices sharply challenged a central element of federal election law Wednesday, with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. taking the lead in aggressively questioning whether long-standing restrictions on corporate and union campaign spending run afoul of the First Amendment right to free speech. With Justice Sonia Sotomayor making her high court debut, the chief justice was unrelenting in his exchanges with new Solicitor General Elena Kagan, calling elements of the law "extraordinarily paternalistic" and comparing the Federal Election Commission's role in regulating campaign spending to that of Big Brother.
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Posted by Editor at September 11, 2009 12:49 AM