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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (136857)	4/18/2010 11:49:12 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Respond to of 543544

It will be fascinating (to me) to see if the case of Citizens United vs. the FEC becomes the subject of query in the SC nomination to come. No doubt any candidate will decline to talk about specific prospective hypotheticals, but given Obama's public disagreement/disparagement of/with the Court's opinion it will be interesting to see if both parties try to use this as a litmus test issue for the nominee. The Democrats will probably use the hearing as an opportunity to poke at the court's reasoning (the nominee will decline to offer a critique) while the Republicans will probably seek to pin the nominee into upholding precedent in this regard. For the Democrats, the Citizen United Case probably has the same profound effects on its party members as Roe v. Wade did on the Republicans. The Dems no doubt see it as "gift" of virtually unlimited funding to deep pockets to endlessly portray their Dem views as the dark side; while Republicans no doubt view it as evening up the advantage the Democrats have in registered voters. One of the unknowns is how much the SC decision will motivate the internet fund raising organizations (Move On etc.) to go beyond their previous efforts in backing Democratic Candidates. Could be the start of cash arms race. en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org