The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #29898   Message #380938
Posted By: raredance
23-Jan-01 - 09:08 PM
Thread Name: Save National Public Radio!
Subject: RE: Save National Public Radio!
The initial message above contains that fatal statement found in virtually all the internet fakes and hoaxes out there: "Forward this to everyone you know." Some familiarity with the US government would let you recognize that the Supreme Court does not specifically "support Congress" or not support congress for that matter. (this of course begs the question of whether they support of don't support particular presidential candidates) Laws passed by Congress that someone objects to must be challenged by an individual or group in Federal Courts and that challenge must wend its way through the appeals courts before the Supreme Court would even make a decision as to whether to hear the case. Funding or lack of funding for a particular organization by congress is not the type of legislation that typically leads to a constitutional challenge.

rich r