Justices Reconsider Campaign Finance

[AlGore-08.com]

Source: Washington Post

It was clear from the start yesterday just how eager some justices were to revisit the landmark McCain-Feingold campaign finance act that the Supreme Court only four years ago blessed as constitutional.

"Maybe we were wrong last time," Justice Antonin Scalia told Solicitor General Paul D. Clement when Clement advised that the court had already decided the very issue at stake in yesterday's oral arguments.

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Yesterday's arguments concerned a portion of the law that says corporate entities cannot use money from their general treasuries to broadcast ads that run 30 days before a primary or 60 days before a general election, are aimed at a relevant electorate and mention a federal candidate by name.

The naming restriction was particularly important, because Congress was trying to do away with "sham" issue ads that purported to be about a controversy but amounted to an attack on a candidate. The groups are free to run such ads if a separate political action committee pays for them.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/25/AR2007042501739.html?hpid=sec-nations

[Bitwit1234]

1. Question

If the investigation into Ohio's fraud connected to the RNC and their computers counting non-votes, and bush and company are arrested and put out of office, CAN THE TWO JUSTICES BUSH APPOINTED...ALITO AND ROBERTS BE THROWN OUT OF OFFICE ALSO.. Remember - he was an illegal president and should not have had the power to appoint any body....does anybody know.

[Thothmes]

2. Alito & Roberts

Probably cannot do that. No provision in the Constitution save impeachment. Remember these people were confirmed by a statutorily legitimate Senate.