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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 you're talking about, the supreme court has struck down the limits. one is randall -- >> none were these cases. >> justice brier right? >> yes. >> okay. i don't think -- there's buckley versus valeo. there's a lot of cases. mcconnell, wisconsin right to life, citizens united which flushes out -- >> my issue is that we've had past nominees that would -- when i heard your discussion with senator white house, you talked about how congress s...

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 you're talking about, the supreme court has twice struck down contribution limits, one in a case randall versus serell. >> i'm aware of these cases. >> justice breyer wrote. >> mm-hmm. >> so i don't think there's -- buckley versus vallejo is an important precedentprecedent. there's others, mcconnell, citizens united -- >> my issue is we've had past nominees who said they would honor prece...

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 don't 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, tend to think those limits have some constitutional problems. i just want to know with the buckley...

Struck down. i personally view this as 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 rolling against the rnc in rnc versus fec where it was challenging limits on contributions to political parties, and i rejected that challenge. another, bloomen versus fec, contributions by foreign citizens to u.s. election campaigns and i u...

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 that's what i was opining on in that case. so i'm not sure that there are the state of the law on expenditure limits was not before us in that case so i don't want to opine on expenditure limits. >> well, it was that opinion that was cited by -- >> i don't know if it was cited -- well, i don't want to talk about a pending case. but my case i upheld limits on contributions in the rnc case and in the bloom...