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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 that's 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 donor's political expression. mccutcheon is now challenging the aggregate limit on donations to federal candidates, political parties and political action committees. presid...

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 don't have that same problem if you're giving the maximum to lots of different candidates. the government's claim here is if you can do that, you can give to candidate committees and that money can get funneled back. in other words, you can circumvent the individual contribution limits. >> indeed...

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 o'malley approved an increase from 4,000 to 6,000. minnesota and arizona have also all raised their contribution limits this year. ann, i wonder, is that absent. live in this era of unlimited outside m...

I think this is a way to fund president obama's theory about a community organizer approach to the presidency where he's 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 don't think it's 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 the obama for america campaign. i mean, this was his presidential campaign which has now been f...

>> this is all bull. >> we are talking federal election rules relating to parties and -- >> which are complete bull. >> let's 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 mchutchin's right to engage in a democratic process. until recently federal courts have upheld contribution limits in the interest of preventing corruption, but the current supreme court led by chief justice john roberts has taken a very differe...