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Type
Dissent
Filed
June 25, 2007
Case
Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc.
Case status
Decided

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Justice Souter, with whom Justice Stevens, Justice Ginsburg, and Justice Breyer join, dissenting. The significance and effect of today’s judgment, from which I respectfully dissent, turn on three things: the demand for campaign money in huge amounts from large contributors, whose power has produced a cynical electorate; the congressional recognition of the ensuing threat to democratic integrity as reflected in a…

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