Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC
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| Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC | |||||||||
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| Argued October 5, 1999 Decided January 24, 2000 |
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| Chief Justice: William Rehnquist Associate Justices: John Paul Stevens, Sandra Day O'Connor, Antonin Scalia, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Clarence Thomas, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer |
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| Majority by: Souter Joined by: Rehnquist, Stevens, O'Connor, Ginsburg, Breyer Concurrence by: Stevens Concurrence by: Breyer Joined by: Ginsburg Dissent by: Kennedy Dissent by: Thomas Joined by: Scalia |
Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC, 528 U.S. 377 (2000),[1] was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that their earlier decision in Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U. S. 1 (1976) upholding federal limits on campaign contributions also applied to state limits on campaign contributions to state offices.
Justice John Paul Stevens had a memorable concurrence in this case in which questioned more than two decades of campaign finance jurisprudence. "Money is property; it is not speech," he wrote.
NOTE: This case had nothing to do with former (and deceased) President Nixon.
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