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Monday, June 25, 2012
Conservatives On the U.S. Supreme Court Must Be Crazy
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The Supreme Court this a.m. has overturned Montana's century-old law limiting corporate contributions in political campaigns. Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing on behalf of Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, reached the bizarre conclusion that "independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corruption," and therefore "[n]o sufficient governmental interest justifies limits on the political speech of nonprofit or for-profit corporations."
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- J.W. Williamson was the founding editor in 1972 of the Appalachian Journal: A Regional Studies Review, which he edited until July of 2000. He has taught college classes in Appalachian history, cultural politics, and literature, and he has lectured widely on the pop-culture history of "Appalachia" in the American consciousness. His books include Interviewing Appalachia, Southern Mountaineers in Silent Films, and Hillbillyland: What the Mountains Did to the Movies and What the Movies Did to the Mountains. He has won the Thomas Wolfe Award given by the Western North Carolina Historical Society, the Laurel Leaves Award given by the Appalachian Consortium, a special Weatherford Award given by Berea College, and the Cratis Williams-James Brown Award given by the Appalachian Studies Association.
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6 comments:
"Insanity stands here revealed indeed." - Wm. Shakespeare
" and therefore "[n]o sufficient governmental interest justifies limits on the political speech of nonprofit or for-profit corporations."
'How's that for a firm grip on reality?"
100% correct.
Keep voting for those republicans, they have the freedom of the individual at heart...
Keep voting for those republicans, they have the freedom of the individual at heart...
Thank you for stating this. It is 100% correct.
"Keep voting for those republicans, they have the freedom of the individual at heart...
Thank you for stating this. It is 100% correct."
Unless you are black, gay, Indian, a human being, poor, and
are not in a position to line a republican legislator and his cronies pockets, not quite 100 %
How as the Supreme Court hurt any of those you mentioned?
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