Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Elena Kagan - Book Banner?

Elena Kagan is a frightening Supreme Court nominee for many reasons, but most specifically, because of her history of subverting the Bill of Rights to political motives. Reason Magazine brings up the specific example today of business influence on the political process. Although I disagree in general with the notion of a corporation as an individual, giving the government power to determine what is acceptable political speech and what is not. In a country where oftentimes private financing is the only method of unseating incumbent candidates, any restrictions to that financing can be seen as limiting public influence to change government. It may sound good in theory to limit corporate influence on elections, but it raises a host of disturbing questions. I would hope that a Supreme Court nominee would see the wisdom in erring on the side of caution when interpreting a document called "the Bill of Rights."

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