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The carefully constructed conservative majority on the Supreme Court was not finished making mischief this week. On Monday, they did everything but declare the president the Padishah Emperor of the Known Universe. On Tuesday, at the behest of vice-president J. Divan Vance, it heard arguments in favor of taking another big whack at the country’s tattered campaign-finance laws. From NBC News:

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority has long been skeptical of campaign finance restrictions on free speech grounds, and Republicans have often brought challenges against them. Some of those justices expressed skepticism about the limits during Tuesday's argument, while liberal justices defended them.

Hanging over the hearing was the legacy of the Supreme Court’s wave of rulings th

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