[RHINO369]

"I agree the port deal was a bipartisan f-up, along with a brain fart on the part of 70% of the American people."

The port deal is trivial compared to the restriction of free speech, and political speech before an election no less. This is exactly the kind of speech the first amendment was supposed to protect. If there aren't apologists on our side then this kind of illegal legislation wouldn't get passed. If Clinton pulled half the crap Bush has done people here would have called for impeachment, again.

[Echo Talon]

what was the vote in the Senate and House for this bill?

[Echo Talon]

The law was challenged as unconstitutional by groups and individuals including the California State Democratic Party, the National Rifle Association, and Republican Senator Mitch McConnell (Kentucky), the Senate Majority Whip. After moving through lower courts, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a special session in September 2003. On Wednesday, December 10, 2003, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that upheld the key provisions of McCain-Feingold; the vote on the court was 5 to 4. Justices John Paul Stevens and Sandra Day O'Connor wrote the majority opinion; they were joined by David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Stephen Breyer, and opposed by Chief Justice William Rehnquist, Anthony Kennedy, Clarence Thomas, and Antonin Scalia.

Maybe they should challenge it again, O'Connor is gone.
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