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independent production fund, with support from the partridge foundation, a john and polly guth charitable fund. the clements foundation. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the bernard and audre rapoport foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that s why we re your retirement company. welcome. it will take a long time to recover from what s been happening in washington. but we now know the insurrection against the rule of law didn t happen spontaneously. it was hatched months ago. not
independent production fund, with support from the partridge foundation, a john and polly guth charitable fund. the clements foundation. park foundation, dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues. the herb alpert foundation, supporting organizations whose mission is to promote compassion and creativity in our society. the bernard and audre rapoport foundation. the john d. and catherine t. macarthur foundation, committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. more information at macfound.org. anne gumowitz. the betsy and jesse fink foundation. the hkh foundation. barbara g. fleischman. and by our sole corporate sponsor, mutual of america, designing customized individual and group retirement products. that s why we re your retirement company. welcome. it will take a long time to recover from what s been happening in washington. but we now know the insurrection against the rule of law didn t happen spontaneously. it was hatched months ago. not
many party committees as you want and as many pacs as you want. all of those things are capped right now, which would mean just in real terms that instead of about $123,000 being the cap, one donor could give $3.5 million to political parties and candidates. there was this moment during the oral arguments when justice scalia told solicitor general verrilli that compared with the billions of dollars already spent on federal campaigns by parties, candidates, political action committees and super pacs, he said, i don t think $3.5 million is a heck of a lot of money. does this surprise you to hear that from a supreme court justice? well, i will say two things. one is $3.5 million is a lot of money, i think, to just about anyone except for the, you know, the adelsons of the world. but the other thing that i will just say, and this was made by another commentator, talk about chutzpah. so the reason that these people are spending millions and millions and millions of dollars in