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...Arizona Senator?s pet cause, campaign finance reform, got a boost when the Court ruled 5-4 to uphold limits on so-called "coordinated" campaign contributions. Justices Souter, Ginsberg, O?Connor, Stevens and Breyer were in the majority. The decision means donations from political parties to specific candidates (generally for campaign expenditures like mass mailings and ads) are subject to Federal Election Commission guidelines, and thus limits can be placed on how much money is contributed. Any ripples from this ruling are likely to be more symbolic than practical; while campaign finance reform remains a hot topic in Washington, coordinated...
...Justices Ginsberg, Souter and Stevens dissented, citing previous rulings enforcing the strict separation of church and state. Justice Breyer, who generally joins Ginsberg, Souter and Stevens in opposition to the majority?s more conservative rulings, abandoned his usual post and cast his lot with Justices Scalia, Thomas, O?Connor, Kennedy and Rehnquist...
Whatever the moral value of the clubs, there may be legal merit to their case. During oral arguments, the Supreme Court Justices seemed to sympathize with the club. Justice Stephen Breyer, considered a liberal, told the lawyer for the Milford school: "[It] sounds to me as if you are discriminating in free-speech terms against religion." If the Good News Club prevails, more clubs will undoubtedly pop up in still more schools. If it fails, clubs will probably have to withdraw from schools where they now meet, having pushed the mission a step...
...noteworthy characteristic of Tuesday's ruling struck Bloom immediately. "What's particularly interesting about today's decision is that it was written by David Souter, one of the Justices who usually rules in favor of individual rights," says Bloom. Souter's customary cohorts, Justices Ginsburg, Stevens and Breyer, were joined by Justice O'Connor in the dissent...
...wrote in the Court's strongly worded opinion, "unambiguously bars cost considerations" from the establishment of air standards, "and thus ends the matter for us as well as the EPA." The opinion, as it goes on, leaves little doubt as to the intensity of the Court's convictions. Justices Breyer, Stevens, Souter and Thomas each concurred with the opinion, adding their own sharp language...