Could SCOTUS be prepared to overturn McCain-Feingold, six years late?
I hope so. Supporting it was one of Sandra Day O’Connor’s more boneheaded decisions, and I hope that replacing her with Alito makes the difference.
I’ve always thought that George Bush’s signing the thing was an impeachable offense, since he took an oath to uphold the Constitution, but freely admitted that he was signing a bill that he viewed as unconstitutional. He was supposed to do his job, not kick it upstairs to the court and hope they’d do theirs.
The act is separable. Each section has to be overturned individually
Getting rid of M-F will not restore the first amendment. That train left years ago. It may have been odious enough to get people to restore the first amendment after the damage the Democrat’s Campaign finance “reform” has done. Certainly the Democrats lost a powerful weapon when Obama refused to play the game. If so, Mr. McCain will have done another great service for his country.