strike up the roflcopter
Lyle Denniston of the indispensable SCOTUSblog:
President Obama ordered his aides on Thursday “to get to work immediately with Congress” to develop “a forceful response” to the Supreme Court’s ruling in the Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission case. In a statement, the President denounced the decision, saying it “has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics.” It was obvious, therefore, that he was interested in working with Congress to overturn the decision, or at least to narrow it significantly.
Unless he has in mind an amendment to the Constitution, however, it is most unclear at this point whether the lawmakers could do anything — or much of anything — to cut down on “special interest money” in American politics. This was a constitutional decision, laying down (essentially for the first time), a sweeping free-speech right in politics for “special interest” bodies of all types with the concept of “speech” clearly embracing spending money to influence election outcomes. If individuals have considerable freedom to express themselves politically, corporations, labor unions, and other “special interest” entities now do, too.
In Washington and today pretty much everywhere else, “Special interest” = “people who refuse to donate to me or my favored causes”. Naturally, the Court decided to leave a little bit of onion dip in the un-Constitutional bowl and not strike down McCain-Feingold in its entirety. rofl.
Which brings us to… a challenger for Feingold? One out of two ain’t bad. rofl.
State Attorney General begs judiciary not to order state to spend money it doesn’t have on things that won’t do any good. rofl.
Kansas governor’s race: You know what – all I need is a reason to like Tom Holland. His record’s a decent one in my book. I’m just in such a dark place in my heart right now that I don’t want to support anything “progressives” support. If anyone needs protection at just this moment in history, it’s from them. I’m sure that one speech by Sam Brownback will cause me to snap out of it, though. rofl.
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