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Supreme Court Handing Down Ruling in Campaign Finance Reform (main parts upheld)
FOX News | 10 Dec 2003 | FOX News

Posted on 12/10/2003 7:09:03 AM PST by July 4th

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bcra; blackrobedictators; bush; bushscotuscfr; cfr; elitisttyrants; firstamendment; freedomofspeech; mccainfeingold; nyt; oligarchy; restrictfreespeech; scotus; tyrannyofthefew
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To: Stopislamnow
Dear God, that is awful.
61 posted on 12/10/2003 7:25:22 AM PST by July 4th (George W. Bush, Avenger of the Bones)
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To: ArneFufkin
" It's a Constitutionally valid law."

No it's not. All activities have costs. Speech has costs. The Bill of Rights says in part, "Congress shall make no law abridging Freedom of speech". Limiting the expense of effort folks can make getting the word out is blatently unconstitutional.

62 posted on 12/10/2003 7:25:28 AM PST by spunkets
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To: Pikamax
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.

I think it's pretty safe to say that the GOP majority in the house and senate will be gone by 2006. They don't deserve they power we trusted them with.

63 posted on 12/10/2003 7:25:30 AM PST by Orangedog (difference between a hamster & a gerbil?..there's more dark-meat on a hamster!)
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To: 1Mike; 3catsanadog; ~Vor~; ~Kim4VRWC's~; A CA Guy; A Citizen Reporter; abner; Aeronaut; AFPhys; ...
Bump for the bad news.
64 posted on 12/10/2003 7:25:39 AM PST by Howlin (Bush has stolen two things which Democrats believe they own by right: the presidency & the future)
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To: KantianBurke
Look at Article I, Section 4 and tell me what that means.
65 posted on 12/10/2003 7:26:20 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree: Bush must be destroyed.)
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To: Howlin
Thing is this is Bush's fault. He passed the buck like a coward. Now it will bite him politically in the ass. Problem is we all suffer for it. Thanks George, some of us were saying this back when he signed CFR and got plastered around here. Where are the Freeper experts who said no way would this happen?
66 posted on 12/10/2003 7:26:24 AM PST by over3Owithabrain
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To: ArneFufkin
Just because the Congress passed it, the President signed it and the courts OKay'd it does not mean its valid.

They can be wrong.

Oh... they said you are 2/3rds of a person too....

67 posted on 12/10/2003 7:26:27 AM PST by GeronL (My tagline for rent..... $5 per month or 550 posts/replies, whichever comes first... its a bargain!!)
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To: Howlin
Five of them ARE supposed to be OUR PEOPLE.

Why would I re-elect a guy who signed this piece of unconstitutional dirt?
68 posted on 12/10/2003 7:26:50 AM PST by the gillman@blacklagoon.com
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To: GeronL
I saw that. My post came at ~ the same time.
69 posted on 12/10/2003 7:26:51 AM PST by spunkets
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To: Pikamax; All
"The court also upheld restrictions on political ads in the weeks before an election."

I truly believe that, with O'connor now trying to "atone" for her vote in Bush V. Gore, the SCOTUS has gone rogue.

What a sad year it has been for that formerly-honorable institution.

And, what with the Dims filibustering frantically, we will have little opportunity indeed to change things.

70 posted on 12/10/2003 7:26:55 AM PST by Long Cut (Whiskey...oil for life's frictions)
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To: Pikamax
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.

I thought they couldn't run the ad, only if they did it anonomously?

71 posted on 12/10/2003 7:27:17 AM PST by 11th_VA (If you can read this IN ENGLISH - Thank a Veteran !!!)
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To: hellinahandcart
This is really really really really bad news. Where the hell is the First Amendment in their minds??????????
72 posted on 12/10/2003 7:27:40 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat (I'm so glad to no longer be associated with the Party of Dependence on Government!)
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To: July 4th
First the wild spending spree and now this. George Bush has received the last vote he'll get from me. If I wanted this crap I could have voted for Gore.
73 posted on 12/10/2003 7:27:54 AM PST by John Jorsett
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To: E.G.C.
The SKY is falling, the SKY is falling.
74 posted on 12/10/2003 7:28:06 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (America's Enemies foreign and domestic agree: Bush must be destroyed.)
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To: 11th_VA
This decision in no way takes "big money" out of the process. The money just can't go to parties now. It can go to issue advocacy groups, like the NRA and MoveOn - as we have already seen with Soros. How they can spend it may be restricted, but they can raise as much as they want.

I still can believe the issue ad part was upheld. Seriously. I'm in complete and total disbelief. And you can expect the Court will be slammed for it. Remember, the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, NRA, AARP...were all in the same side on this one.
75 posted on 12/10/2003 7:28:09 AM PST by July 4th (George W. Bush, Avenger of the Bones)
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To: Pikamax
Supreme Court Upholds Political Money Law 6 minutes ago.

I don't care how many Evelyn Woodhead Sped Reding Classes the AP{ reporter attended, but there is not way the person read, analyized and reported on a 300 page decision in six minutes. I'll withhold judgment until I've actually read the complete decision myself or I receive reliable info from some who has.

76 posted on 12/10/2003 7:28:16 AM PST by Labyrinthos
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To: 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.

Just keep in mind that this cannot stop New Media: Talk radio, the net, etc. This ruling will make them more powerful than ever, as the "mainstream" media starts to baldfacedly shill for the RATS and the public revolts as a result. It worked after the Wellstone memori-rally, it'll work in 2004.

We still need to agitate to get the law REPEALED, however.

77 posted on 12/10/2003 7:28:20 AM PST by Timesink (I'm not a big fan of electronic stuff, you know? Beeps ... beeps freak me out. They're bad.)
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To: Howlin
And people think it's not important for Bush to be reelected?

will Bush undo what Bush helped do???

78 posted on 12/10/2003 7:28:26 AM PST by GeronL (My tagline for rent..... $5 per month or 550 posts/replies, whichever comes first... its a bargain!!)
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To: ArneFufkin
" You and the rest of the Bowery Boys are grossly incompetent in the field of Constitutional Law. "

BS! It's the SCOTUS, Congress and Bush that are.

79 posted on 12/10/2003 7:28:30 AM PST by spunkets
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To: Howlin
Very bad. Lousy, in fact.
80 posted on 12/10/2003 7:28:33 AM PST by Peach (The Clintons have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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