Posted on 06/08/2010 8:41:54 PM PDT by Steelfish
Supreme Court Curbs Arizona Public Funding In Elections The emergency order, coming in the midst of the state primary campaign, prevents Arizona from giving additional funds to candidates who forgo private financing and are vastly outspent by rivals.
David G. Savage and Jennifer Martinez, Los Angeles Times June 8, 2010
Reporting from Washington — The Supreme Court, in an unusual move, came to the aid Tuesday of well-funded candidates in Arizona and blocked the state from giving extra public money to those candidates who had agreed to forgo private financing.
The court's emergency order throws a wrench into the state's campaigns two months before its primary elections. It is the latest sign that the high court's conservative bloc is skeptical of legal rules to limit election spending or to equalize the spending between wealthy and not-so-wealthy candidates.
Two years ago, the court in a 5-4 decision intervened on behalf of a wealthy candidate for Congress from upstate New York and struck down the "millionaire's amendment." That measure, part of the McCain-Feingold Act, allowed a candidate to raise more money through larger donations if his opponent was spending lavishly. Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. called it a "drag" on the free-speech rights of the wealthier candidate because he was penalized for spending more.
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The importance of SCOTUS..
McCain Feingold, the gift that just keeps on giving, this time mid stream an election.
Man, it just makes you want to go out there and endorse the prick over and over again doesn’t it.
Another good ruling.
I notice you and I are in the same mood tonight! Grrrr.
Yeah, well there’s not much we can do when even this sight is overtaken by people who want to push Democrats on us. And that’s all McCain is, another Democrat willing to work with the likes of Ted Kennedy, John Kerry, George Soros, Terressa Heinz Kerry, the Tides Foundation, et al.
The ruling is on the Arizona, Clean Elections Act, which was approved by voters in 1998. A better description would be corrupt elections.
It pertains to only state offices, there are loopholes big enough to drive a truck through, the labor unions, and big money supporting liberal Republicans have found all the loopholes.
Some of us have been trying to figgure out how to get this mess overturned, since it was passed.
I addressed Campaign Finance Reform because the article touched on it. You are right.
We have a meeting with it's author Friday, I'm going to have to do some tongue biting. I think he is going to try to con our TEA Party group to endorse him, I've got bad news for him, that is not going to happen, he is going to get pressure for us to sponsor a debate between he, and the other candidates running for Senate.
I don't think that will happen either.
All of which became state law via proposition approved by the voters who fell for the propaganda funded by SOROS!
Well, good luck to you.
I see we have another Soros funded propaganda campaign coming up, another vote on medicinal marijuana.
Soros is just plain evil.
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