McCain-Feingold's Electioneering Communication Prohibition Held Unconstitutional as Applied...

Press Release: James Madison Center for Free Speech ^ | December 21, 2006 | Contact: James Bopp, Jr.

[Sub-Driver]

this will hang around his neck in the primaries. he's toast. Yippee!

[HarleyLady27]

....so thinking here.....if this is unconstitutional and has been struck down....does it have any retro meanings? If its illegal today, then it was illegal last year right? So our freedom of speech was trampled on, so what rights do we have now? Can we sue mcpain and finegold for the inconvenience of denying our freedoms????

AND doesn't the Congress decide to begin with that it should have been illegal BEFORE they passed it??? So are all the members that voted on this illegal bill guilty of fraud?????

[Knitting A Conundrum]

From your fingers to God's ears!

[Just A Nobody]

BTTT ;*)

[PA-RIVER]

McCain, the hemorrhoid of free speech.

How can free speech be bound by so many rules and restrictions, and still be free? It cant!!! McCain teaming up with Fiengold tells you everything you need to know. HE SHOULD NOT BE PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!

[b4its2late]

Whoa! Early Christmas present? Let's hope it doesn't get re-gifted by SCOTUS.

[Fudd Fan]

Well, well, well... MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

[DrGunsforHands]

Seriously wondering if his torture and imprisonment during Vietnam didn't have long-term affects or some sort of brain-washing that would cause him to support something like this. I can excuse Feingold; he's a democrat. And unless McCain was the victim of brainwashing that would make him systematically destroy the basis of our Democracy (Free Speech and right to criticize and bring to task those who hold public office), then he's just a deluded fool I can never support for public office.

[DrGunsforHands]

Also worried that this ruling doesn't overturn entire part prohibiting criticism of candidates before an election.

[EODGUY]

I agree completely with your assessment of McCain, but I don't want anyone to think that Feingold is anything more than an opportunist and partisan hack.

I literally have a folder 2 inches thick of letters he (actually, they were probably written by one of his lackeys) sent to me in response to requests I made to him in writing that he uphold the Constitution and the rights of all citizens, born and those to be born. He and the other senator in my state (who bought his position), feel abortion and hobbling free speech, unless it's the right kind of speech by the right kind of people, is perfectly fine, although neither was willing to place the issue in referendum form so they could truly see how their constituents feel about their rights being stolen from them one at a time.

I fear the collapse of our culture, sincerely !

God bless our nation....please !


EODGUY

[joem15]

I still can't believe that Bush did not Veto the whole package and send it back to the dogpack to gnaw on.

[CottShop]

I'ma dummy when it comes to stuff like this- will this give Church voting booths the right to campaign or even have 'religious symbols' uncovered in their churches during elections as well? or No? http://sacredscoop.com

[Rome2000]

Getting rid of MCINSANE's law is more important than catching that raghead OBL.

MCINSANE's law cost the GOP Congress.

[MindBender26]

JimRob,

Wonder if Judge Leon or Judge Sentelle are FReeper/FRlukers?

:~)

Live Long and Prosper, JimRob!

[therut]

Is not this what the NRA argued before in its AMicus Brief aganist free speech. And the USSC just ignored them. Ginsberg said the NRA was an ideological group. Whatever that means to her. I guess a group she disagrees with. I wonder if she would therefore admit as a high ranking member of the ACLU that she was a member of an ideological group. Of coarse NOT.

[nopardons]

Great news!

[Candor7]

The erosion of that LAW's REALLY horrible attack on first amendment rights has begun.McPain and Findgold dislike the use of speech which cannot be moulded and shaped by the MSM they have bought and paid for.

Liberty's call cannot be ignored in the face of this law. It is an bad, evil law, and is just one MORE reason McPain will never be president.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

It's a travesty that the Court . . . prohibits free discussion of politics at election time.

It's a travesty that Congress passed McCain-Feingold. It's a travesty that Bush signed McCain-Feingold. And it's a travesty that SCOTUS upheld McCain-Feingold.

There is however the possibility that the replacement of O'Connor with Alito might flip that 5-4 SCOTUS decision in a rehearing.

[Red Steel]

With the recent SCOTUS judge appointments, this has a good chance of being upheld...assuming this case gets appealed.

[word_warrior_bob]

One of the worst, anti-constitutional laws we've ever seen.