Posted on 07/01/2002 12:19:11 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:55:03 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
In a ringing 5-to-4 decision last Thursday, the Supreme Court reaffirmed the principle that elections are about ideas and that the censorship of political ideas violates the First Amendment.
In Minnesota, as in 39 other states, the people elect their state court judges. Gregory Wersal had wanted to run for a position on the Minnesota Supreme Court on the platform that the current court had made some bad legal decisions.
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