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9.07.2003
Speaking of the Supreme Court... The days are getting shorter, and so with the harvest about to be culled from the fields, this can only mean that the Supreme Court is ready to start another term. It is true that the Supreme Court is gearing up for another term, and they are going to be in session tomorrow. However, it's overtime for the justices. FEC v. McConnell or should we say The United States Federal Elections Commission v. Sen. Mitchell McConnell rolls into the docket tomorrow morning. Due to fact that the current session ends by the start of the next one (October 8th), campaign fundraisers, politicians, television stations, interest groups, and even you and I wait with baited breath. And even more ironically, the leadoff arguments will be between noted Federalist Society members: Ken Starr for the opposition and Ted Olson for the FEC. It can't get any weirder than this. Ken Starr, the man who hunted Bill Clinton for years as the Independent Counsel for the US Congress, walks into court to face the Solicitor General of the United States. Olson got the job because Bush signed the Bipartsian Campaign Reform Act with a great deal of anguish. As the Solicitor General, he must defend the Executive Office which is ultimately...yup the Federal Elections Commission. But the plotline is anyone's guess about how the judges will rule. Neverthless, as the court of last appeal, the law will either be cut down, remanded, or otherwise refit to the US Supreme Court's instructions. The impact will be huge as Howard Dean has hinted me might opt out of public campaign financing and fight Bush head-to-head in a money primary. Bush is seen as grudgingly supporting the BCRA and so either way it is a defeat for him in some capacity. Either he loses in name, or he loses the ability to use more "soft money". The ways things are going, Bush might actualy hope for something with a non-military victory. After all, he nearly is begging for more money for the war in Iraq and has nothing to show for it. But it's also quite fitting that the start of the 2004 campaign season begins with the Supreme Court, just as 2000's election ended in the chambers of....the Supreme Court. |
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