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Now the conservative court is gearing up for yet another decision that could change the way we do politics in this country. today the justices heard oral arguments in a case thats being called citizens united on steroids. sean mccutcheon, ceo, is the plaintiff in the case of mccutcheon versus federal exchange committee. now this man claims aggregate contribution limits violate the first amendment by limiting an individual donors political expression. mccutcheon is now challenging the aggregate l...

The court, the issue, legal hinge are corruption. supreme court upheld limits on contributions on the theory if you can give unlimited amounts of money directly to a candidate, you buy the candidate, you get corruption, you get something for your money. what the court seems to say here, though, is you dont have that same problem if youre giving the maximum to lots of different candidates. the governments claim here is if you can do that, you can give to candidate committees and that money can ge...

In 2006 to 4.6 million in 2010 and 11.5 million so far this cycle. the new reality of american politics many of them are concluding they can only fight fire with fire. so far this year six governors, three republicans, three democrats have signed bills raising campaign contribution limits. florida republican rick scott bumped contribution limits up from 500 to 3,000. in maryland, democrat martin omalley approved an increase from 4,000 to 6,000. minnesota and arizona have also all raised their co...

I think this is a way to fund president obamas theory about a community organizer approach to the presidency where hes going to build up a parallel structure outside of the democratic party to implement his own agenda, and the only way you can do that is if on the side you sell a little access to the white house to raise money to do it. so i dont think its all about selling access, i just think selling access is an integral part to it. jon: and just so viewers understand, this is what used to be...

>> this is all bull. >> we are talking federal election rules relating to parties and -- >> which are complete bull. >> lets go back to the open of this segment. mchutchen argues these limits -- always -- trust rendell to throw this live wire. >> give me his phone number. ly tell mchutchin how to contribute millions of dollars. >> these limits violate mchutchins right to engage in a democratic process. until recently federal courts have upheld contribution limits in the interest of preventing co...

Recipient limits would be swept away. but i do think this case is very important because it gives the court an opportunity to develop the governing standard for contribution limit cases. as weve seen, the court has been much more deferential regarding contribution limits, much tougher on spending limits. citizens united was a spending limits case. now there is a chance perhaps to alter the governing standard for contribution limit cases and there is another case well hear this morning, whether t...

Chairman and former chief counsel to the republican national economy, and pete williams. i have my own theory on this but there are specific questions. >> interestingly mccutcheons lawyer is the same one that brought the citizens united case to the supreme court. basic question is is it constitutional to have this limit on what you can give every two years. they say, yeah, we understand the anti-corruption reason to have the individual limits but they say theres no such thing at play if youre gi...

President obamas ad blitz. in key swing states obamas been spending more than romney. mitt romney, as we know, received a big boost from super pacs and its possible in coming years campaigns could look a lot more like those super pac spending machines. in a new atlantic article, james bennet look at foot soldiers fighting to eliminate all campaign financial restrictions and predict in a couple of years politicians will push to abolish contribution limits and allow candidates to accept and spend ...

Perspective, enough movement on the ground. and even though there are huge efforts, the problem is is that there are still people, believe it or not, who dont know that the election is june 5th and that thats the day that it matters. and so, you know, i dont think there could be enough people. chris, if you or any of your panelists or anybody want to come to wisconsin and help, just come on. im certain that we can put you to work. >> why is it -- i mean, one of the things that ive heard raised b...

Mount a bus tour to try to combat the negativity, but thats going to be tough to do in the face of 1,200 negative ads. thats right. according to cantar media, iowans have been showed a negative message about mr. gingrich more than 1,200 times in the last few weeks. the biggest player by far in the state has been restore our future, thats a super pac supporting mr. romney. so far its spent $2.6 million on television ads depicting gingrich as tainted by scandal, soft on illegal immigration and cor...