Campaign finance: Democrats would’ve banned the Federalist Papers

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Published March 22, 2017 4:01am ET

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Campaign finance: Democrats would’ve banned the Federalist Papers — Gorsuch acknowledged, of course, that the Federalist Papers do not specifically mention corporate campaign spending. He wisely declined to go much further than that, rather than, for example, hooting with derisive laughter. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) | Pablo Martinez Monsivais

Citizens United has become the new Roe v. Wade, or so it seemed on Tuesday.

President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, was peppered in the second day of hearings with questions about that 2010 case which Democrats loathe. Senators in the minority are annoyed that there’s too much freedom to spend money to unseat them, reasoning perhaps that otherwise, they’d still hold a majority.

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