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WASHINGTON — The five justices in the majority in Citizens United, last year’s campaign finance blockbuster, appeared poised on Monday to strike down an Arizona law that provides matching funds to candidates who accept public financing.
Near the end of the argument, Justice Stephen G. Breyer, who dissented in Citizens United, asked whether the court should continue what he suggested was a harmful piecemeal approach to striking down aspects of complex campaign finance laws.
“It is better to say it’s all illegal than to subject these things to death by a thousand cuts, because we don’t know what will happen when we start tinkering with one provision rather than another,” Justice Breyer said in a frustrated tone.
The likely result in the Arizona case, though, will be an incremental step and the fifth decision from the Roberts court cutting back on the government’s ability to regulate campaign financing.
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