The U.S. Supreme Court’s long-running divide over limits on money in elections played out again on Tuesday in a constitutional challenge to a Florida rule prohibiting judicial candidates from personally soliciting contributions.

The justices struggled with whether solicitations by judicial candidates are different from those by other political aspirants once a state has made “the fundamental choice,” in the words of Chief Justice John Roberts Jr., to elect its judges.

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