James Bopp Jr. (born February 8, 1948)[1] is an American conservative lawyer.[2] He is most known for his work associated with election laws, anti-abortion model legislation, and campaign finance.[3] (wikipedia)
The state would have to prove that Vermont is the most corrupt state in the country because they are trying to justify the lowest contribution limits and the only state with mandatory expenditure limits. That is just a ridiculous smear.
And I hope they do, frankly, ... I think it's outrageous that they're subjected to these unconstitutional restrictions.
It's hard to overestimate how significant these two cases are together,
some of the areas of concern which pose a substantial threat to free speech and free association rights of citizen groups.
In these cases he didn't go beyond the issues that needed to be resolved. He wasn't trying to create law. He was just carefully following the existing law.
Anything Dr. Dobson did to endorse candidates, he did as an individual,
I think we should write a platform that allows the nominee to argue his position.
I don't think these cases tell us anything about whether he would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade or not. Nor do they tell us whether he supports pro-life as a value.
He's not a rookie. He's been doing this for 15 years. That usually doesn't change. He will do the same thing as a justice.
The lower court must now confront the real merits of this case ... that there is no constitutional justification for prohibiting grass-roots lobbying about upcoming votes in Congress, just because we are in an election season.
