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Competence and ability, experience and philosophical and judicial temperament. on that test, elena kagan fails. and he goes on in the body of the op ed to talk about how when she was dean of harvard law, she was squarely against "don't ask, don't tell" or she barred military recruiters from the harvard campus which the senator says flies in the safe of the solomon amendment. >> so here are the other republicans against kagan. john mccain, johnny isaacson, mitch mcconnell, orrin hatch, lisa makowski, jim demint and jim imhoff. john mccain could be doing this politically. he's in a tough battle ...

As the court said in citizens united, no other case held that congress prohibited independent contributions based on the identity of the speaker. austin was the aberration, the exception, the break in the court's consistent pattern of precedence. and mr. chairman, i'm going to need about 30 seconds more to finish. >> 30 seconds more. >> many folks have attacked the decision saying it is a prime example of quote conservative judicial activism unquote because it ignored precedent by overruling austin. by overruling that one preced t precedent, wasn't the court reaffirming a larger group of proef...

>> the first amendment protects awful our rights. >> right. in citizens united -- i get tired of people on lft hoe oh left saying it's a terrible case. in citizens united, the court listed at least 25 precedents dating back almost 75 years. here's a list of them. holding jenly that the first amendment protects corpse speech and specifically that it protects corporate political speech. now, i would like to put these cases in the record at this point. on the other side of the press denial kale does a 1990s decision in austin versus michigan chamber of commerce.

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