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Justices loosens limits on campaign ads
By JIM KUHNHENN, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 56 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - Free speech rights take precedence over government restrictions on political advertising, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a decision that opens the door for greater influence by interest groups in the closing days of an election.
In a 5-4 ruling, the court eased legal barriers aimed at corporate- and union-financed television ads, a decision whose tone suggests greater hostility on the court to federal limitations on money in politics.
The decision upheld an appeals court ruling that a Wisconsin anti-abortion group should have been allowed to air ads during the final two months before the 2004 elections.
Anti-reform. Pro-big-business. Anti-abortion. Free speech is cool when it's special-interest religious groups who want it. Not when it's the youth, though. They just want to use their free speech to smoke drugs.
Court bars suit against faith-based plan AP, 52 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration's faith-based initiatives got a boost Monday from the Supreme Court: a ruling that ordinary taxpayers cannot sue to stop conferences that help religious charities apply for federal grants.
President Bush called the 5-4 decision 'a substantial victory for efforts by Americans to more effectively aid our neighbors in need of help.'
The court blocked a lawsuit by a group of atheists and agnostics against eight Bush administration officials including the head of the White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives.
Pro-religion. Pro-administration. Anti-taxpayer. Anti-citizen-oversight.
I guess the upside to this is, when Christians start bitching about how the entire country is against them, you can feel sort of sick inside knowing that they're wrong.
