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.

[GeronL]

#25, I mis-spelled. I missed the 'NOT!'

darn, we need to editing!!

[GeronL]

That soft money works well... the money just goes elsewhere

[Puppage]

UN FREAK'N BELIEVEABLE!

The criminals win again

[ArneFufkin]

You guys are Jabronis. Tomato Cans. More like Palookas.

The Legislature passed it, the Executive signed it. The Supreme Court reviewd and confirmed it. It's CONSTITUTIONALLY VALID Judge Wapner.

You and the rest of the Bowery Boys are grossly incompetent in the field of Constitutional Law.

Shoo!

[jwalsh07]

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

Huh? The New York Times operates under one set of rules while my wife and I operate under a different set of rules with the threat of jail and huge fines is Constitutionally valid?

Where, in Stalinist Russia?

[Semper Paratus]

So free speech is now conditional to the calendar?

[Flux Capacitor]

Bush, as the President, signed McCain-Feingold into law even though it blatantly violated standards of CFR legislation that he himself laid out during his campaign. The ultimate responsibility for this rests with him.

The Pres has made it through 3/4 of his first term without vetoing a single damn thing -- not even this, which demanded a veto. That's not just ridiculous, it's unheard of. He'd better learn to use that veto pen soon before he signs away any more of our rights in the misguided hope that the Supremes will save him and us.

-Dan

[Always Right]

CNN has: 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.

VERY BAD NEWS. Unfreaking believable.

[Howlin]

The court also upheld restrictions on political ads in the weeks before an election.

Good god.

[July 4th]

The only thing left is for Congress to change the law. Since this is a Supreme Court ruling on a statute, you change the statute, the law goes away. (The jurisprudence remains.) But good luck getting Congress to backtrack on this.

[GeronL]

I meant he said he would not veto it.

I corrected myself in #25.

[Howlin]

And people think it's not important for Bush to be reelected?

We have GOT to get some of our people on THIS Supreme Court!

[justshutupandtakeit]

Nonsense.

The constitution gives the Congress the right to regulate elections to federal office. See Article I Section 4. Such a law as this is part of the "manner of holding elections" which are "prescribed in each state by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators."

Campaign finance laws have been on the books for at least 30 yrs and the Court has upheld them for the most part. This is nothing new and was a foregone conclusion.

[michigander]

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.

D

[Stopislamnow]

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.


We are now no better than the soviet union.

[Mo1]

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,

Has it been reported what they reasons were??

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

...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...

Take your meds, Fluffy.

[GeronL]

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

well, there it is.

[11th_VA]

SFGATE.COM:

The majority also barred the national political parties from raising this kind of money, and said their affiliates in the individual states may not serve as conduits for soft money. Without soft money, politicians and political parties may only take in donations that are already allowed in limited amounts, such as a private individual's small re-election donation to his or her local member of Congress. That means no more huge checks from wealthy donors, and no contributions from the treasuries of corporations or labor unions.

[hellinahandcart]

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.

Oh my God, please let this be a Rita Cosby moment at AP...