Three Bad Rulings  

The Gang of 14, those Senator’s who trusted the President (saps) who assured them that if there was no fillabuster on his nominee’s to the Supreme Court he’d bring centrists to our highest court. Well, the “Gang” has alot to answer for - and here’s why; start with campaign finance - the 2008 elections will be controlled and funded by corporations and special interest groups, who’ll use this ruling to play havoc with our democratic system…wink, wink, nod, nod - to the Republican Party by Chief Justice John Roberts. I might remind you, our very own Senator Pryor was a member of the Gang of 14 and this is what get; freedom of speech for groups like the “Swift Boaters” - but some smart ass kid, who raised a sign, “Bong Hits 4 Jesus”, well he has no right to excercise his freedom of speech, because…well, because he said Jesus.

Chief Justice Roberts and the four others in his ascendant bloc used the next-to-last decision day of this term to reopen the political system to a new flood of special-interest money, to weaken protection of student expression and to make it harder for citizens to challenge government violations of the separation of church and state. In the process, the reconfigured court extended its noxious habit of casting aside precedents without acknowledging it — insincere judicial modesty scored by Justice Antonin Scalia in a concurring opinion.

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It opened a big new loophole in time to do mischief in the 2008 elections. The exact extent of the damage is unclear. But the four dissenters were correct in warning that the court’s hazy new standard for assessing these ads is bound to invite evasion and fresh public cynicism about big money and politics.