YES, I'M OUTRAGED
...that the liberal campaign finance reform anti-speech laws now have SCOTUS' stamp of approval. Note to President Bush: Never expect the unelected justices down the street to do your dirty work for you. You've stood up to terrorists and other foreign enemies of the Constitution. Now stand up to its domestic enemies. It's in your Oath of Office--look it up.
That the entire impetus for CFR came mostly from the same party that sold its soul to the ChiComs (who are as we speak meeting with President Bush and cozying up to our enemies around the MidEast) in 1996 is an outrage. That RINO McCain put his name on it is an outrage. That the feckless Repubs in the House and Senate passed it, figuring Bush or SCOTUS would save them, is an outrage. That Bush still hasn't vetoed a thing, including the worst threat to free speech since the founding of the Republic, is an outrage. That the Supreme Court has cast aside the Constitution in favor of international law is an outrage. And that that same court has now so circumscribed political speech that no one really knows for sure what's legal anymore is beyond outrage.
I can say all that without having read the decision; Spoons is reading it, and he's even more outraged than I am. Volokh has some posts about it, but not nearly enough, and IP is AWOL for some reason. What do we not pay you lawyer bloggers for, if we can't count on you to man the barricades once in a while?
Where do we go from here? I don't know. I suppose we'll be good little sheep and live with it, like we do the countless other outrages we let the government get away with. But this one is a big one; the sting will last a long, long time. I think Spoons is right in comparing it to Roe, Dred Scott and similarly awful rulings. It's as bad, or worse. I mean, what part of
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
do the five justices in the majority not understand? And what can we do to get them to understand it, crystal clear? These people can find the right to buggery in the Constitution, which you'll find nowhere in the document's actual text, but they can't find the right to say bad things about elected officials, when it's clearly spelled out in the First Amendment?
Yesterday was an awful day for liberty. It may go down as the day the Constitution died.