re: #241 drcordell

Also, note that Roberts himself heard an extremely similar case to Citizens United just two years ago. And yet he managed to avoid a facial challenge to all campaign finance laws just fine. Go look up Wisconsin Right to Life vs. FEC, from the year 2006.

Roberts managed to write that opinion without completely gutting 100 years of campaign finance law. Things have changed that dramatically in 2 years that Roberts now felt it appropriate to completely expand the scope of an as-applied challenge to a facial challenge?

“There the appellant was able to prevail on its narrowest constitutional argument because its broadcast ads did not qualify as the functional equivalent of express advocacy; there was thus no need to go on to address the broader claim that McConnell v. Federal Election Comm’n, 540 U. S. 93 (2003), should be overruled.”

ahh. logic. smells of…rich mahogany and fine leather…