Supreme Court Handing Down Ruling in Campaign Finance Reform (main parts upheld)

FOX News | 10 Dec 2003 | FOX News

[July 4th]

Reports that main portions of McCain-Feingold are now being upheld! People currently wading through a decision of over 300 pages.

[KantianBurke]

Are you joking? CFR is constitutional?? By all means please enlighten those of us on FR who think otherwise. Would love to hear your arugment!

[jwalsh07]

The original reporting on Bush v Gore said that the decision was favorable to Gore. I am sure it is a mixed bag but we'll have to wait and see but you're right about one thing, with Stevens and O'Connor writing for the majority it's more bag than mix.

[ArneFufkin]

Geron, you were full of crap from day one.

It's a Constitutionally valid law. You don't know jack squat, do you?

[Stopislamnow]

Death of the Republic

I really hope people are getting fed up enough to do something.

[GeronL]

No. Bush never said that. He warned Congress that if they let it passed he would veto it.

NOT VETO IT.

darn... I need to proof read

[Dane]

Where are THEY?? Where are the FReepers who said not to worry because it would be struck down?

Right here, had no problem with the soft money bans, it was the ad bans, which no one knows as of yet were upheld by SCOTUS

[NonValueAdded]

The soft money ban is sure stopping Soros, isn't it? </sarcasm>

[spunkets]

"He warned Congress that if they let it passed he would veto it."

He signed it anyway.

[vbmoneyspender]

You're the anti-Constitutionalist. Go to Liberia with your anarchy.

If opposing bans on issue adds within 60 days of an election makes on an anarchist, then you can label me an anarchist too. You should also label the NRA an anarchist organization because it opposed the 60 day ban as well. I suspect that you will also want to label Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia as anarchists based on their dissents from the Supreme Court's decision.

[thoughtomator]

Still pending, the opinion on whether the government should be allowed to summarily execute anyone who criticizes a Supreme Court decision.

[Always Right]

Link! We need links!

[Orangedog]

BUMP!

[E.G.C.]

It appears more likely with this ruling that we will have a Democrat Prtesident and a Democrat controlled Congress.

With all that's been going on, I think it may be time for conservatives and christians to build a fortress and dig up bunkers around their house. This does not appeear to bode well at all for conservatives and christians.

[Mo1]

No. Bush never said that. He warned Congress that if they let it passed he would veto it.

He didn't say that...

[July 4th]

I just can't see how they can uphold the 60-day speech restrictions without completely trampling over past election law jurisprudence and the Constitution. But the media has said nothing about this yet - they're only talking about the soft money issue right now. Looks like I gotta read the case.

[The Old Hoosier]

Having a bad day? I guess sucking up to the GOP establishment isn't always what it's cracked up to be, eh?

[GeronL]

Banning some people from advertising their views while allowing others is not Constitutional. Where does it say we can have different laws for different people?

That is NOT Constitutional.

Pissing in public is free speech but speech is not???

[Pikamax]

Supreme Court Upholds Political Money Law
6 minutes ago

By ANNE GEARAN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court upheld key features of the nation's new law intended to lessen the influence of money in politics, ruling Wednesday that the government may ban unlimited donations to political parties.



Those donations, called "soft money," had become a mainstay of modern political campaigns, used to rally voters to the polls and to pay for sharply worded television ads.


Supporters of the new law said the donations from corporations, unions and wealthy individuals capitalized on a loophole in the existing, Watergate-era campaign money system.


The court also upheld restrictions on political ads in the weeks before an election. The television and radio ads often feature harsh attacks by one politician against another or by groups running commercials against candidates.

[conservativefromGa]

will on of these 9 old $#&($ ever die?

[evad]

Mr. President. Your "sign-the-damn-thing-and-let-SCOTUS-fix-it" plan isn't working out. What's Plan B?

Same immediate reaction that I had.

A black day in the land of conservatism and constitutionalism.
A red letter day for leftists and anti constitutionalists.