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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (129075)1/23/2010 11:26:15 AM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 542060
 
I was surprised to read that Gallup's polling indicates that the public agrees that corporate spending in elections is "free speech"

As that piece you linked to suggests, one can consider it free speech but still favor suppressing it. Something can be constitutional but undesirable or unconstitutional and desirable. To me it seems like folks are conflating the two. If they favor the law that was overturned, then it must have been unconstitutional.

I don't claim an opinion about its constitutionality. I haven't studied it carefully enough. From what I've read, though, it seems to me that you can reasonably make a constitutionality case either way depending on what you want the answer to be. Neither is a slam dunk.
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