SCOTUS overturns 100 years of speech law

[kandrathe]

This ruling has far more impact than the original case intended.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405...2930090152.html

Good news for the cause of liberty, but bad news for those of us who hate campaign commercials and the dominance of special interest groups influence in campaigns.

Not only is McCain-Feingold dead, but... Kennedy wrote;<blockquote>"When government seeks to use its full power, including the criminal law, to command where a person may get his or her information or what distrusted source he or she may not hear, it uses censorship to control thought," he wrote. "This is unlawful."

The ruling not only strikes down the federal requirement, it also calls into question similar provisions enacted by nearly half the states. Montana, which adopted restrictions on corporate electioneering a century ago, filed a brief on behalf of more than two dozen states seeking to protect their own power to regulate campaign finance.</blockquote>