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I personally view this as, you know, law making from the court, the citizens united case. so i'm 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, i've 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 another, bloomen versus fec, contributions by foreign citizens to u.s. election campaigns. i upheld t...

With respect to contribution limits, however, there are cases where the contribution limits are too low. so subsequent to the e-mail you're talking about, the supreme court has twice struck down contribution limits, one in a case randall versus -- >> i'm aware of these cases. >> buckley is an important precedent. there's a lot of case law subsequent to those e-mails. mcconnell, citizens united, which fleshes out some of those. >> i mean, my issue is we've had past nominees who said they would honor precedent. then they joined citizens united opinion. when i was hearing your discussion with sen...

Cited your opinion in arguing to have these charges thrown out. does that concern you at all? >> our case dealt with contribution limits. so that's what i was opining on in that case. so i'm not sure that there are -- the state of the law on the expenditure limits was not before us in that case. so i don't want to opine on expenditure limits. you should know that opinion was cited by -- >> well, i don't know if it was cited -- well, i don't want to talk about a pending case. my case i upheld. importantly, i upheld limits on contributions in the rnc case and the bloomen case, and the supreme co...

A constitutional amendment. i personally view this as -- with a law-making from the court, the citizens united case. so i'm 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 -- >> let's talk about that case. your opinion left open the possibility of unlimited spending by foreign nationals in the united states on issue advocacy. the same thing we saw by the russians. a russian company fa...

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