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Tue Jun 30, 2026, 11:41 AM 17 hrs ago

Justice Sotomayor smacks Kavanaugh with stinging dissent in campaign spending case

By Travis Gettys
Published June 30, 2026 11:27 AM ET

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor smacked her conservative colleagues with a stinging rebuke for their decision to gut another campaign finance statute by overturning a decades-old precedent.

The court struck down federal limits on how much money a political committee can spend in coordination with candidates in the case National Republican Senatorial Committee v. Federal Election Commission, and Sotomayor ripped the 6-3 conservative majority, questioned their legal reasoning and accused them of flaunting their own power.

"The majority would much rather explain why it thinks settled law is wrong than go to the trouble of establishing what it should — an unusual need to start all over," she wrote. "So today’s supposed stare decisis analysis mainly just recounts why the majority, had it been the majority in 2001, would have decided Colorado II differently."

https://www.rawstory.com/sonia-sotomayor-dissent-campaign-spending/

Yep, she is basically saying that the maga court is just plain corrupt............

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