Supreme Court Case Protects 1st Amendment!

http://www.nysun.com/article/61425
A recent Supreme Court ruling struck down a provision of the McCain-Feingold act preventing people from airing advertisements 30 days before a primary election and 60 days before a general election.  The ruling is seen by many as a victory for the 1st Amendment.  The majority opinion for the case was written by Chief Justice John Roberts, an appointee of George W. Bush.  Critics of the McCain-Feingold law often refer to it as the Incumbent Protection act due to the restrictions it implements on speech during elections, serving to shield politicians from criticism. 

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Yes, but you're forgetting what a free election is, which is in contrast to the Freedom of Speech (hereby referenced as FoS). Listen. Elections and campaign contributions make for situations where there is what is known as an appearance of impropriety, and this is a very specific terminology. What the appearance of impropriety in public elections does (such as let's say Hillay Clinton receiving 10 million dollars from Merck Pharmaceuticals and winning the election and thereby passing legislation which favors Merck would qualify for a shady dealing in elections).

How do we counteract this and keep elections clean? McCain-Feingold checks the appearance of impropriety by a number of provisions.

Among the provisions are limitations on campaign contributions, limitations on campaigns in their behavior, and the most controversial and challenged provision was the one that was overturned (ads before elections).

I can see why the court would disagree with the last provision, but I can also see why the Senate passed it as well, and that's to keep public elections fair in terms of campaign contribution amounts, so politician X with $80,000 compared to politician Y with 80,000,000 would be seen on equal terms on the airwaves before the election.

What this ruling does is allow person Y to use their 80,000,000 to X's 80,000 to just FILL THE FUCKING PUBLIC CONSCIOUSNESS WITH ADS and thereby win the election. That wreaks of impropriety and is not a public election.