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The court has upheld contribution limits, but advocates of spending limits say those clearly have not worked to remove the money taint.
The Supreme Court has long upheld contribution limits to candidates and parties.
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In Republican National Committee v. FEC in 2010, Kavanaugh wrote for a three-judge panel in upholding contribution limits on federal candidates and parties.
If experience has taught anything, it is that the corruption rationale the court used in Buckley, and has now reiterated in upholding contribution limits, applies no less on the spending side.
In a separate opinion, Thomas said the 1976 ruling in Buckley vs. Valeo upholding contribution limits should be overruled.
A report from Democracy 21 catalogs Roberts' history of upholding contribution limits and the prohibition against soliciting large checks.
But Roberts' prior rulings and the Supreme Court's longstanding precedent of upholding contribution limits are what leave supporters of the aggregate limits cautiously optimistic.
This past presidential election campaign demonstrated that the Supreme Court has bequeathed to America the worst of all campaign finance regimes -- upholding campaign contribution limits to candidates, while striking down all independent spending limits, including restrictions on corporations.
Since then, the court has upheld every federal contribution limit that has come before it.
But the judge, William K. Sessions III of Federal District Court, upheld Vermont's contribution limits, which are the lowest in the country for individual donors to candidates.
Disagreeing with the IRS, the Tax Court upheld her charitable contribution deduction for unreimbursed monies she laid out to care for a passel of cats—sometimes 70 or 80 in her 1,400 square foot home.
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