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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...

List versus fec, you wrote the requirements trigger rights that receive, quote, less first amendment protection, close quote. other types of speech prohibitions. >> and i think that followed from supreme court law and is consistent, i believe, with subsequent supreme court law. of course, the subsequent supreme court law controls. >> do you have a favorite among the federalist papers? i'm not asking you to choose here between eliza and -- >> yeah, no, that's right. i like a lot of federalist papers. federalist 78, of course, the independent judiciary, the role of the judiciary. federali

List versus fec you wrote that disclosure requirements trigger rights that receive less first amendment protection, close quote, than speech prohibitions, other types of speech prohibitions. >> and i think that followed from supreme court law and is consistent, i believe, with subsequent supreme court law. of course the subsequent supreme court law controls. >> do you have a favorite among the federalist papers? >> -- i'm not asking you to choose from eliza and -- >> no, that's right. yes. so i like a lot of federalist papers. federal 78, of course, the independent judiciary, the role of the j...

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...