His court has previously ruled to ease campaign contribution limits, strike down D.C.'s gun control law and allow evidence obtained from unlawful arrests to be used in court -- decisions that outraged liberals.
He said he was a successful entrepreneur and conservative activist who was prepared to use his money to make more contributions if the overall limits are struck down.
He told the justices that if the limits were struck down, an individual donor like Mr. McCutcheon could be solicited to give up to $3.6 million to the candidates and committees of one party in an election cycle.
When asked yesterday if he'll be spending more than he did in previous cycles now that the limits are struck down, McCutcheon couldn't hide his eagerness: "Oh, absolutely.
"If the overall limits are struck down, we are going to see a return to federal elections of the huge contributions that existed prior to the Watergate campaign finance scandals and are going to see the system of legalized bribery recreated that existed prior to Watergate," Democracy 21 President Fred Wertheimer said.
The National Basketball Association's age limit was struck down more than 30 years ago.
Buckley v. Valeo, a complex 1976 decision, upheld limits on direct contributions to candidates' political campaigns, and those limits are still in place today; it also struck down limits on how much money a candidate could spend on his or her own campaign, which is why, Citizens United or no Citizens United, Donald Trump could fund his Presidential campaign with his own money.
But now that the overall limit has been struck down, instead of putting thousands directly into our elections, the nation's wealthiest can put millions.
Senator Romer need look no further than the experience of the State Health Board, a body that has seen its repeated efforts to impose a similar limit on caregivers struck down over administrative violations.
Since its landmark ruling 27 years ago in Buckley v. Valeo, which struck down limits on campaign spending while upholding limits on contributions, the court has remained extremely attentive to campaign finance issues, creating a dense web of precedents.
