Die McCain-Feingold, die.
That POS legislation needs to be declared UNCONSITUTIONAL!!
I don’t know whether to cheer or fear what ads may come in the next cycle.
Thank God.
Note that the older conservative justices wanted to totally reverse an earlier court decision, while the Bush appointees just said that the Wisconsin Right to Life’s ads weren’t covered by the particular provision ruled on. Interesting. I’m getting terribly skeptical in my almost mid-20s age, it seems.
I love this man!!!
Mcain Feingold was unconstitutional,
just took time to have the unconstitutional part
torn out.
"The decision was a defeat for the Bush administration"
They'd call ending world hunger "a defeat for the Bush Administration."
HA! Up theirs! (McCain and Feingold, that is)
Waitaminute....I thought President Bush was the root of all evil for expecting the SCOTUS to do exactly what it just did?
Die Moron.org’s influence die!!! No longer will Soros funded organizations get to run an end around Mcain Feingold without advocacy groups on the other side being able to respond. Its over, over.
I also wonder if this could foreshadow how the S.Ct. would rule on any “fairness” doctrine type legislation that passes?
Wisconsin Right to Life declares SCOTUS victory
Monday, June 25, 2007, 12:33 PM
By Jim Dick
The U.S. Supreme Court hands Wisconsin Right to Life a victory and it's not about abortion. Reformers will call the court's 5-4 ruling a blow for the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Law but Barbara Lyons, Executive Director of Wisconsin Right to Life sees it differently. To her group it's a victory for free speech and grass roots lobbying. Democracy at its finest, Lyons says.
Lyons says the court made a distinction between advocacy ads and the group's attempt at grass roots lobbying in 2004. That's when it wanted to air an ad against a senate filibuster on court nominations. The ad asked people to contact Senators Kohl and Feingold to let them know how they felt on the filibuster issue.
Feingold was running for re-election at the time so the ads could not air by law. Now they can.
While so-called issue ads during campaigns, paid by unnamed sources, that state a case for or against a particular candidate are still covered, some feel it's the beginning of the end for McCain-Feingold and campaign finance reform.
And why should corporations and unions get to talk about politics before an election, while individuals and non-profits are still apparently forbidden to?
And why do black ministers and Democrats get to preach politics from the pulpit right up to election day, while priests and bishops and white Evangelicals are forbidden to do so?
This whole law should have been shot down the first time it came before the court.
The damage done by Liberals on the Court will take generations to correct.
Just askin'....
The unionists never abided by the McLame Feinfool provisions anyway.