while delivering his dissent, from the bench, liberal leaning justice stephen brier said that the decision eviscerated our nation's campaign finance laws and where money calls the tune, the voices of the people will not be heard. wrung of is majority just as clarence thomas wrote, political speech is the primary object of first amendment protection and the life blood. a self-governing people. contributions to political campaigns no less than direct expenditures generate essential political speech by fosters discussion of public issues and candidate qualifications. the first ruling to lift expansions. since then there's been a rise in outside groups called super political committees or super packs. >> i never paid less than 13%. >> super packs are registered as nonprofits and can accept unlimited donations to influence voters. >> we took some emergency action, but that accounts for 10% of this increase. leaving critics to call it shadow money. one of those is billionaire casino owner of las vegas. he and his wife spent more than 93 million-dollars in the 2012 elections, last weekend three p

it was very interesting that justice stephen brier, a liberal justice joined the conservatives in this respect. he cares a lot about democracy. and he said look, basically liberals are going to be better putting their faith in the ballot box than not. i think because the people decided to ban it here, the courts should defer. it doesn't change the status quo that much. when this case was first heard in the court last october, i was inside justice scalia made the comment that really took me by surprise. i know you all are veteran court watchers. >> we've held that the 14th amendment protects all races. i thought we rejected that. >> only the blacks. it was startling. when you look at the fallout, here's the impact on the ban of affirmative action at the university of michigan. in the year before the ban, the school's freshman class was 7% african-american. the year after the ban, it fell to 5%. the same pattern in california at berkeley. before affirmative action ban, the freshman class was at 14% african-american. the year after the ban, it fell all the way to 9%. so even though this c