Breaking News >> Supreme Court Rules Against Student Who Displayed ‘Bong Hits 4 Jesus’ Banner, “Justices strike down key campaign finance reform provision.”
I am waiting for more news to come in on it, but Allahpundit said:
Just across on Fox. Stand by for details. Bush just won on faith-based initiatives, too.
Update: Who cares about the Supreme Court anyway? The “pants” case is decided!
The latest has earned the coveted Drudge siren: “Justices strike down key campaign finance reform provision.”
A majority of the Supreme Court’s conservative bench Monday swept aside part of a campaign finance reform law dealing with “issue ads,” an important free speech dispute gaining attention as the presidential election campaign gains unusually early traction.
The ruling could mean a greater role in Campaign 2008 for advocacy groups, corporations and labor unions, which air the commercials in the frenetic weeks before voters go the polls.
June 25, 2007 - 09:02 AM on June 25th, 2007
The Supreme Court didn’t go far enough with the Pants ruling, the “judge” who brought the ruling ought to have been removed from the bench if not disbarred for such a frivolous suit.
June 25, 2007 - 10:53 AM on June 25th, 2007
[...] Hot Air has complete coverage. Be thankful for Roberts and Alito. While Scalia and Thomas rarely disappoint us, even Kennedy joined in on a series of conservative decisions. Right Voices has more. News Max has the whole story. [...]
June 25, 2007 - 07:37 PM on June 25th, 2007
“The ruling could mean a greater role in Campaign 2008 for advocacy groups, corporations and labor unions, which air the commercials in the frenetic weeks before voters go the polls.”
And you guys are happy about this?!?
June 25, 2007 - 07:51 PM on June 25th, 2007
Not at all SFL! This will only make the circus that much nuttier:sad:
June 25, 2007 - 08:15 PM on June 25th, 2007
yeah, seriously.
this is bad news for all of us.
…oh, except those with enough money.
June 25, 2007 - 08:43 PM on June 25th, 2007
Actually the problem with the McCain Feingold debacle was that it stopped Americans from freely expressing themselves. While it severely damaged the NRA membership’s rights to run ads, it left Soros funded groups like Moveon.org (who hasn’t moved on since 2000) to pretty much run whatever adds they chose, whenever they chose. It was all a matter of the groups IRS designation. 527s were specifically written into the tax code to avoid being effected by the Campaign Finance deform bill.
June 26, 2007 - 06:18 AM on June 26th, 2007
SFL, I’d be happier if the Supreme Court struck down McCain-Feingold completely.
Your measure of money does not equal free speech. Just your ability to buy speech. When you libs control all the media outlets, you deny the right any speech rights, and you were definitely trying to reserve all speech right to your leftist “journalists” just before elections.
June 26, 2007 - 08:08 AM on June 26th, 2007
Well of course to the Left free speech is anything that fits within their approved parameters. Anything outside that is hate speech to be suppressed.