The Colorado Supreme Court decision: What difference does it make?(campaign finance)(Brief...

Justice Souter's opinion for the majority seems geared more to the mext case than to this one.

DURING THE ORAL ARGUMENT in Federal Election Commission v. Colorado Republicans on February 28, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor asked a key question: Will the decision in this case make any difference? Four months later, O'Connor was the swing justice in a 5-4 opinion upholding Congress's authority to limit party spending in coordination with a candidate's campaign. The rest of us now can get back to her question.

When this case began in 1986, soft money