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384. The cord is light

By Joel Jacobsen

The Supreme Court is going to screw up campaign financing again even worse than it already is.  That's a given.  These are the people, after all, who ruled that soft money could have no tendency to corrupt politicians forced to prostitute themselves to get it (see post 133) and that suing a sitting President is "highly unlikely to occupy any substantial amount of [his] time." In short, the members of the Supreme Court do not approach the "issue" from the angle occupied by reality.  The quotation marks are there because campaign financing is a constitutional rather than political issue only in the sense than the justices say it is.  As the justices explained for all time (or until they change their minds) in their 1976 decision dismantling the post-Watergate reforms): The First Amendment denies government the power to determine that spending to promote one's political views is wasteful, excessive, or unwise...continue to full post

Full post as published by Judging Crimes on September 13, 2009 (boomark / email).