Right Opposition

The grand political process is now open to everyone, thanks to the recent Citizens v. FEC case that was decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. The implications of the decision are broad and are anchored in a respect for the Constitution and especially the First Amendment.

Some on the left have bemoaned the decision because corporations can now participate in the advertising and funding of political campaigns without the restrictions that existed before the decision.

I’d like to direct your attention to a post at American Thinker which details why democrats oppose Citizens v. FEC. You see before the decision, media companies were exempted from prohibitions which applied to other companies. Here’s a quick peek:

As is pointed out in the Citizens opinion, media corporations are currently exempted from the ban on political speech. So the corporate giant GE is free to influence the political leanings of the media businesses it owns. These include NBC and MS-NBC, as well as the political content within the shows airing on GE’s SyFy, USA, Bravo, and Sleuth channels.

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E.J. Dionne Jr. is coming apart. Writing for the Washington Post this week Dionne focuses on Justice Samuel Alito’s widely publicized reaction to President Obama’s comment about the United Citizens ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court. Dionne, in an article he calls Justice Alito’s candid response to Obama’s rebuke, charges that Alito is a “judical activist” and that he serves the passions of conservative activism on the Robert’s court.

Here’s the truth. The court’s ruling does bypass precedent and says so in the ruling. It goes back to he founding document, t he Constitution. Noting that there was no more less restrictive ruling possible, the court bypassed what it saw as errant rulings and stood on our foundation of liberty.

It is the First Amendment guarantees freedom of speech – not precedent.

Progressives depend upon precedent because every ruling moves us further from the original. Progressives are not interested the Constitution for it blocks their efforts. They hate the idea that people have the liberty to speak their mind either individually or in an assembly.

Dionne is just wrong. Alito is no activist. He reaches for original intent which he should.

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