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I personally view this as, you know, law making from the court, the citizens united case. so im trying to figure out where you are on this. do you think contribution limits have constitutional problems, and what can congress actually do to rein in the flood of money? >> as a d.c. circuit judge, ive upheld contribution limits in two important cases. one ruling against the rnc in rnc versus fec where it was challenging limits on contributions to political parties. i rejected that challenge. in ano...

With respect to contribution limits, however, there are cases where the contribution limits are too low. so subsequent to the e-mail youre talking about, the supreme court has twice struck down contribution limits, one in a case randall versus -- >> im aware of these cases. >> buckley is an important precedent. theres a lot of case law subsequent to those e-mails. mcconnell, citizens united, which fleshes out some of those. >> i mean, my issue is weve had past nominees who said they would honor ...

Cited your opinion in arguing to have these charges thrown out. does that concern you at all? >> our case dealt with contribution limits. so thats what i was opining on in that case. so im not sure that there are -- the state of the law on the expenditure limits was not before us in that case. so i dont want to opine on expenditure limits. you should know that opinion was cited by -- >> well, i dont know if it was cited -- well, i dont want to talk about a pending case. my case i upheld. importa...

A constitutional amendment. i personally view this as -- with a law-making from the court, the citizens united case. so im trying to figure out where you are on this. do you think contribution limits are a problem and could the reign of money be held in. >> there was one ruling against the rnc v. the sec. i rejected that challenge. another bloomin contributions by foreign citizens -- >> lets talk about that case. your opinion left open the possibility of unlimited spending by foreign nationals i...

Actually cited your opinion in arguing to have these charges thrown out. does that concern you at all? >> our case dealt with contribution limits. thats what i was opining on in that case. im not sure there are -- the state of the law and the expenditure limits was not before us in that case. so i dont want to opine on expenditure limits -- >> that opinion was cited by -- >> i dont know if it was cited -- i dont want to talk about a pending case. my case, i upheld limits on contributions in the ...

Regulate and has done so. with respect to contribution limits, however there are cases where the contribution limits are too slow. so subsequent to the e-mail youre talking about, the supreme court has struck down the limits. one is randall -- >> none were these cases. >> justice brier right? >> yes. >> okay. i dont think -- theres buckley versus valeo. theres a lot of cases. mcconnell, wisconsin right to life, citizens united which flushes out -- >> my issue is that weve had past nominees that ...

On the other side congress does have authority to regulate and has done so. with respect to contribution limits, however, there are cases where the contribution limits are too low, so subsequent to the e-mail youre talking about, the supreme court has twice struck down contribution limits, one in a case randall versus serell. >> im aware of these cases. >> justice breyer wrote. >> mm-hmm. >> so i dont think theres -- buckley versus vallejo is an important precedentprecedent. theres others, mccon...

Finance, since those are the documents that i received and were able to make public. of course i think they all should be made public, the ones that -- and i dont like this committee classification, what happened, but the chairman did allow me to make those public. in those documents, in one e-mail from march 2002 you discuss limits on contributions to candidates saying, and i have heard very few people say that the limits on contributions to candidates are unconstitutional. although i, for one,...

Struck down. i personally view this as law making from the court, the citizens united case. so im trying to figure out where you are on this. do you think contribution limits have constitutional problems, and what can congress actually do to rein in the flood of money? >> as a d.c. circuit judge, ive upheld contribution limits in two important cases, one rolling against the rnc in rnc versus fec where it was challenging limits on contributions to political parties, and i rejected that challenge....

Charges brought by special counsel mueller actually cited your opinion in arguing to have these charges thrown out. does that concern you at all? >> our case dealt with contribution limits, so thats what i was opining on in that case. so im not sure that there are the state of the law on expenditure limits was not before us in that case so i dont want to opine on expenditure limits. >> well, it was that opinion that was cited by -- >> i dont know if it was cited -- well, i dont want to talk abou...