[DB]

I think there is a high probability that the “fairness doctrine” won't make it past the supreme court. There's that pesky first amendment thing...

[Sister_T]

Yeah, that’s what many said about “Campaign Finance Reform”.

[TheCipher]

I think there is a high probability that the “fairness doctrine” won't make it past the supreme court. There's that pesky first amendment thing...

Not once He appoints new justices. It is only a matter of time

[Scoville300k]

Really?

How’d that Supreme Court thing work out with “McCain/Feingold?” The First Amendment didn’t seem much of a barrier there did it?

[rcrngroup]

I think there is a high probability that the “fairness doctrine” won't make it past the supreme court. There's that pesky first amendment thing...

Kind of like that pesky first amendment thing that GW Bush thought would SURELY reject the McCain-Feingold campaign reform act of 2002 and so he signed it, that restricted free speech 60 days prior to the election? Ooops, the Supreme Court upheld this after it was challenged and only negated a portion of it in a second challenge. If the fairness doctrine is passed and especially with the SC being packed by radical judicial activists appointed by His MessiahShip, challenges to any laws curtailing the 1st amendment rights or even any 2nd amendment rights will be swept aside like yesterday's trash.

[Sicon]

I think there is a high probability that the “fairness doctrine” won't make it past the supreme court. There's that pesky first amendment thing...

First of all, the "Fairness Doctrine" WAS already in place before, so the 1st Amendment would not seem to be sufficient deterrent to the socialists.

Second, what on earth makes you think for one second that the democrats, and the soon-to-be very liberal Supreme Court, are going to let something like the Constitution or Bill of Rights stand between them and control over speech on the public airwaves?

Wake up. These are Stalininsts we're dealing with, comrade.