More Judicial Tyranny - Censoring Political Speech

Another instance proving that, when it comes to the US Supreme Court and Constitutional rights, the power to "interpret" is the power to destroy. Its recent decision in McConnell v. Federal Election Commission shows the only speech the court wants to limit is political speech, by way of what is known by the Orwellian term "campaign finance reform." Yet the First Amendment specifically states that Congress shall not so much as abridge free speech, let alone censor it.

From Justice Scalia's dissent:

Who could have imagined that the same Court which, within the past four years, has sternly disapproved of restrictions upon such inconsequential forms of expression as virtual child pornography, tobacco advertising, dissemination of illegally intercepted communications, and sexually explicit cable programming, would smile with favor upon a law that cut to the heart of what the First Amendment is meant to protect: the right to criticize the government.

Jonah Goldberg and Mona Charen each have clear, concise pieces on this today.

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