James Bopp, Jr.. is an American conservative attorney and constitutional scholar. He has been designated as one of the most influential lawyers in the United States, and is renowned with regards to election laws and campaign finance... (wikipedia)
some of the areas of concern which pose a substantial threat to free speech and free association rights of citizen groups.
I think we should write a platform that allows the nominee to argue his position.
The state would have to prove that Vermont is the most corrupt state in the country because they are trying to justify the lowest contribution limits and the only state with mandatory expenditure limits. That is just a ridiculous smear.
And I hope they do, frankly, ... I think it's outrageous that they're subjected to these unconstitutional restrictions.
If we believe in democracy and the role of the people, it's quite appropriate for the people to pick judges,
In these cases he didn't go beyond the issues that needed to be resolved. He wasn't trying to create law. He was just carefully following the existing law.
Anything Dr. Dobson did to endorse candidates, he did as an individual,
It's hard to overestimate how significant these two cases are together,
He's not a rookie. He's been doing this for 15 years. That usually doesn't change. He will do the same thing as a justice.
I don't think these cases tell us anything about whether he would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade or not. Nor do they tell us whether he supports pro-life as a value.
The lower court must now confront the real merits of this case ... that there is no constitutional justification for prohibiting grass-roots lobbying about upcoming votes in Congress, just because we are in an election season.