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Ken starr fights finance Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.thewbalchannel.com/politics/2463080/detail.html http://www.thewbalchannel.com/politics/2463080/detail.html Supreme Court Considers Campaign Finance Reform Justices Return From Break Early To Mull Constitutionality Of New Law For the first time in nearly 30 years, U.S. Supreme Court justices returned early from their summer break for a special one-day session. They're hearing arguments Monday on how political campaigns are financed. Specifically, they're being asked to decide whether Congress's version of campaign finance reform is in sync with constitutionally protected free speech. Groups ranging from the ACLU to the NRA are challenging the 2002 law that, among other things, bans the huge, unlimited donations to political parties known as "soft money." The main authors of the law, Sens. John McCain and Russ Feingold, took seats side-by-side in the courtroom. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Orrin Hatch was also there. TV cameras lined up outside the court and the line of people looking for seats stretched down the plaza of the building toward the street. The high court's decision is expected by the end of the year. In the meantime, the 2004 presidential election campaigns will continue operating under the new law. It bans large, unregulated donations to political parties and tightens controls on political advertising in the weeks before an election. In his argument before the court, former independent counsel Ken Starr said the law goes too far. Starr said the law "intrudes deeply into the political life of the nation." He added that the law hampers local political parties and hurts grass-roots political efforts. Starr seemed to get support from Justice Antonin Scalia, who said, "the right to speak includes the right to speak in association with others." But Justice John Paul Stevens later said, "we have never held that." Copyright 2003 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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