[NittanyLion]

President Bush had an obligation to the Constitution to veto this bill.

Yep. Of course, FreeRepublic's resident experts assured me SCOTUS would strike the bad parts down, even as I claimed SCOTUS was too unpredictable to make that assertion.

Bush gambled, and lost.

[thoughtomator]

You would have thought the GOP, or the President at the very least, should have been aware that the Supreme Court no longer considers the Constitution in its rulings.

[Protagoras]

Bush gambled, and lost.

He gambled with my money. He played Russian Roulette with my rights.

He didn't lose my vote, he had to earn it and he never did.

[Sabertooth]

FreeRepublic's resident experts assured me SCOTUS would strike the bad parts down, even as I claimed SCOTUS was too unpredictable to make that assertion.

The Supremes almost always uphold campaign finance restrictions on political speech.

To be fair, a few who supported his signing of the bill have acknowledged now that it was a mistake.

[Congressman Billybob]

I was one of the "experts" who made that assertion. If this decision is as bad as the comments so far indicate, I WILL resign from the Bar of the United States Supreme Court, exactly as I said I would if we did not get major parts of this law struck down.

I have been a member of that Bar since 1976. My 18th brief in that Court will be filed on 19 December. But beyond a certain point, any institution can become so corrupt that an honest man can no longer associate with it. Once I have read the opinions in this case, that is probably where I will be, with respect to the Court.

Congressman Billybob

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