Just wait until the lawsuits start at the state level... along with a heaping, hideous, horrible helping of Tom DeLay.
January 23, 2010
24 States’ Laws Open to Attack After Campaign Finance Ruling
By IAN URBINA
In Wisconsin, conservative and pro-business groups said Friday that they were considering a lawsuit to block a proposed law that would ban corporate spending during political campaigns.
In Kentucky and Colorado, lawmakers looked for provisions in their state constitutions that may need to be rewritten. And in Texas, lawyers for Tom DeLay, the former House majority leader, said the pending state campaign finance case against him should be thrown out.
A day after the United States Supreme Court ruled that the federal government may not ban political spending by corporations or unions in candidate elections, officials across the country were rushing to cope with the fallout, as laws in 24 states were directly or indirectly called into question by the ruling.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
One bitter comment:
"One day the Constitution of Colorado is the highest law of the state," said Robert F. Williams, a law professor at Rutgers University. "The next day it’s wastepaper."
In the words of Justice John Paul Stevens:
The court operates with a sledgehammer rather than a scalpel when it strikes down one of Congress’s most significant efforts to regulate the role that corporations and unions play in electoral politics. ... It compounds the offense by implicitly striking down a great many state laws as well.
Um, well, I allus thought that Justice Antonin Gregory Scalia looked like a thug, the kind of thug who WOULD happily rather wield a sledgehammer than a gavel.
Oh Krikey! What about...
THE PENDING TRIALS OF TOM DELAY
DeLay hasn't been tried yet -- or sentenced -- so ... Tom DeLay will probably walk away totally unjailed, unaccountable, unpunished, untarnished.. Please pardon me while I crib a riff by Cheryl Seal on the multiple evils of Tom DeLay and grab Seal's headlines on DeLay's crimes :
Warmonger, liar, scam artist, religious and racial bigot, socipathic bully, corporate whore....and the most powerful man on Capitol Hill... Senator Tom Delay of Texas - a thoroughly miserable excuse for a human being - has made it his personal life's work to zealously undermine everything most of us in this nation hold dear - like compassion, honesty, democracy, freedom, and justice.
THE CRIMES OF TOM DELAY....
Nov 2000: Delay Tries to Intimidate Supreme Court Judges to Fix Election Outcome
Nov 28 2000: Tom Delay Finances Trip of 'Rioters' to Florida to Disrupt the Presidential Election Recount
Dec. 2000: Washington Post Scrubs Photo of Florida Rioters that Shows Delays Staff
Feb 2001 (report on campaign 2000): Delay's Daughter Launders $60,000 in Donations in 2000 for Daddy
January 2001: Delay uses Corporate Slush Fund to Finance Ads Attacking Democrats Who Oppose Ashcroft's Nomination
April 12, 2001: Delay Sells Meetings with Bush to Top GOP Donors
April 27 2001: Delay Scam Targets Small Business Owners
May, 2001: Tom Delay Brags That His Strategy Is To Kick People When they Are Down
June 2001: Tom Delay Bilks Doctors in Boiler Room Scam
July 2001: Tom Delay, Former Exterminator, Wants to Allow Extensive and Undisclosed Use of Pesticides in Elementary Schools
July 2001: Tom Delay Helps Hastert in Push to Block Patient's Bill of Rights
May, 2002: Media, Judicial Watch, and Congress Continue to Look other Way as Doctors are Preyed on By Delay Boiler Room Scam
January 2002: Tom Delay Used Enron Money to Fund Political Racketeering
Feb. 2002: Tom Delay Fights to Block Campaign Finance Reform
Feb. 2002: Tom Delay Refuses to Return Money to Enron Employees
April 2002: Delay Claims Only Christians Know what's best for Nation
May 16, 02: Tom Delay Financial 'Godfather' Implicated in Mob Murder
Feb 2003: Tom Delay Smears Firefighters as "Threat to National Security"!!
May 2003: Tom Delay Uses Homeland Security and State Police Resources to Terrorize Political Opponents
June 2003: Delay and 15 other GOP Congresscreeps Accused of Taking Bribes from Energy Corporation seeking favors
June, 2003: Delay Blocks Efforts to Restore Tax Cuts to Poor Families left Out of Bush Plan
August 15, 2003: Record Shows that Democratic Efforts to Upgrade Electrical Grid to Prevent Blackouts was Ridiculed and Blocked by DELAY
October, 2003: Memo Is Smoking Gun Proof of Tom Delay's Collusion with Enron
Oct. 13 2003: Tom Delay Thumbs His Nose at the Will of 80% of Americans And Blocks Efforts to Overturn Hated FCC Corporate Giveaway
Oct. 2003: Bush Cowers as Delay Guts the Americorps Program
Nov. 22 03: Thug Delay Steals Medicare From the Elderly by Threatening fellow Congressfolk
Nov. 2 03: How Tom Delay Engineered a Junta-style Takeover of the Texas Government
Nov. 2003: Tom Delay Aggressively Promotes and Defends War Profiteering in Iraq
http://houston.indymedia.org/...
Oh ain't that a kick in the head, a jab in the ribs!
Damn you! You Fascist Five! I hope you roast eternally and painfully in Hell!