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WhoIsNumberNone

(7,875 posts) Mon Jan 26, 2015, 11:26 AM Jan 2015

"The Supreme Court’s latest test of whether campaign contribution restrictions violate free-speech rights split the justices into familiar liberal and conservative camps.

And skeptical questions from Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, who probably holds the pivotal vote, did not bode well for Florida and 29 other states that forbid judicial candidates from directly soliciting campaign contributions.

Such restrictions are needed, the states contend, because judges are not like other politicians. The public expects judges to be impartial, the states argue, and that perception is compromised when candidates directly ask for money."

Read more here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/supreme-court-considers-whether-judges-can-directly-ask-for-campaign-donations/2015/01/20/0269914e-a0e7-11e4-b146-577832eafcb4_story.html

Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur), John Iadarola (http://www.twitter.com/jiadarola), Ben Mankiewicz (http://www.twitter.com/benmank77) and special power panel guest Michael Shure discuss on The Young Turks.