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Thread #126720   Message #2818986
Posted By: John on the Sunset Coast
22-Jan-10 - 07:27 PM
Thread Name: BS: Supreme Court Kills Democratic Party...
Subject: RE: BS: Supreme Court Kills Democratic Party...
I'm not the constitutional scholar that some of you folks seem to be, but I know that regarding the Bellotti case which Donuel noted above (actually First National Bank of Boston v Bellotti, 1978) Justice Stevens voted with the majority in the opinion which overturned the Massachusetts law prohibiting corporate contributions to the political process. He seems now to have reversed himself, while the current court would seem to have followed precedent. Bye the bye, that decision, too, was 5-4.