"Judge Sotomayor has staked a position that could have far-reaching political consequences. The clarity of her support for limits on campaign fundraising and her background as a pioneering campaign regulator is raising eyebrows among election law experts who say her record is more substantial and explicit than that of any Supreme Court nominee since the dawn of the modern, post-Watergate campaign finance regime." (Source: Politico.Com)
Senator Mitch McConnell has led (somewhat successfully) the fight against campaign finance laws. He had a victory of sorts when the Supreme Court overturned portions of the McCain-Feingold Election Reform Act of 2002. Senator McConnell has claimed that campaign finance reform violates First Amendment rights of free speech.
