Another constitutional lesson for Capitol Hill
Center For Individual Freedom
by staff
04/28/06
Alright, we admit it. We do enjoy pointing out the constitutional ignorance of others, especially when those others owe their seats of power to the very first Article of the 'supreme Law of the Land.' ... But even we were shocked this week when the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), demonstrated his prodigious constitutional naivete in an op-ed column published by The Washington Post. On Tuesday, Chairman Specter went on the offensive in black-and-white in support of a bill he is sponsoring that would 'mandate[ ] television coverage of the Supreme Court['s]' proceedings. Even if televised oral arguments were the greatest good imaginable, that doesn't mean Chairman Specter -- or, for that matter, the Congress -- can simply make it so...
http://tinyurl.com/zpcsn
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by staff
04/28/06
Alright, we admit it. We do enjoy pointing out the constitutional ignorance of others, especially when those others owe their seats of power to the very first Article of the 'supreme Law of the Land.' ... But even we were shocked this week when the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), demonstrated his prodigious constitutional naivete in an op-ed column published by The Washington Post. On Tuesday, Chairman Specter went on the offensive in black-and-white in support of a bill he is sponsoring that would 'mandate[ ] television coverage of the Supreme Court['s]' proceedings. Even if televised oral arguments were the greatest good imaginable, that doesn't mean Chairman Specter -- or, for that matter, the Congress -- can simply make it so...
http://tinyurl.com/zpcsn
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 3. Mai, 16:14
