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...course, it was never doubted that determined groups would find a way around the rules. When the Supreme Court considered the inevitable case against campaign finance laws in Dec. 2003—on grounds that the laws infringed on First Amendment rights??it ruled in favor of the restrictions; yet, even at the time of decision, the justices were wary of the ruling’s real implications. As it issued its majority opinion, they wrote, “We are under no illusion that BCRA will be the last congressional statement on the matter. Money, like water...
Earlier in the evening, Scalia ridiculed the European Court of Human Rights?? 2000 decision striking down British legislation that bars group gay sex on the grounds that the law intruded upon private life...
...Albert R. Wynn of Maryland explained that achieving equality was not just “about civil rights but also economic rights?? and called for the creation of more jobs for blacks...
...speeches he delivered over the past year in a heated primary campaign. But in an effort to bring new life to his White House bid, Kerry also incorporated new themes—including, early in his speech, a call to arms for the cause of women’s rights??and responded in unusually blunt fashion to criticisms of his policies and style that have accumulated over the course...
...opposed to relying on the criminal-justice system—or it isn’t. Second, our enemies’ terrorist methods are either legal under the rules and customs of war, or they aren’t. No amount of pedantic hairsplitting over “civil rights?? and “due process” is going to work if it ignores those awkward, obvious questions...