WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday affirmed without comment a ruling upholding a ban on so-called soft-money contributions to political parties.
Three justices — Anthony M. Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas — did vote to hear the case, suggesting the possibility that the court might take up a similar question down the road.
In March, a special three-judge panel of the Federal District Court for the District of Columbia ruled that the ban, in the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, was constitutional.
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