Reply #114: The Supreme Court is a political body setting political policy. [View All]

[TexasObserver]

This decision is a political decision, not a legal decision. It is clothed in legal terminology because that's how the Supreme Court always justifies its decisions. They determine where they want to move the law, then they justify it with cases which can be used to either support them, or tortured until they appear to support the court's action.

Legalistic opinions can be used to support segregation (Plessy v. Ferguson) or to strike it down (Brown v. The Board of Education). The law changes when society changes, and the court's opinions are supposed to reflect that. Except in the instant case, the court did not do that. It did not follow the direction of society in its evolving effort to contain the corrupting influence of money in politics. The Supreme Five are acting as an agent of the rich and powerful, just as they did when the SC appointed the Bush boy president. In this case, the five man majority is attempting to subvert democratically created limitations on the overwhelming influence of money in elections. Never lose sight that is what is taking place.

This same court has approved "free speech" zones to move protesters miles from presidential activities. This court majority has no problem restricting real free speech. That they would strain at the gnat of public political protest speech and swallow the camel of corrupting money in politics is more evidence that the Supreme Court five are corrupt GOP hacks who should be investigated for their political activities while on the bench, and impeached as appropriate.