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| Proposal - Juan Williams law |
| 2010-10-22 |
| Posted by:DarthVader |
| #5 If the courts can read the first amendment and declare any form of funding to any church, let alone the simple erection of a cross in tribute to our fallen on public land, to violate the separation of 'church and state', then how hard is the concept of separation of 'press and state' to be implemented? Other than they just make it up as they go along. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2010-10-22 17:29 |
| #4 I like the idea of banning the bailout of media companies. We can already see that one coming. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-10-22 14:48 |
| #3 NPR claims that most of the funding it gets from the government comes in the form of grants, not support payments. That would need to be and additional specification in Mr. Simon's proposed law. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2010-10-22 14:24 |
| #2 Long ago and far away this is what the 1st Amendment did. Perhaps more recent commerce clause reasoning could define the effects such public funding has by displacing otherwise private activity. If intRAstate commerce affects intERstate commerce, certainly a publicly funded press affects the remaining free and unabridged press. Then again, I only got a B in constitution law class. |
| Posted by: Halliburton - Mysterious Conspiracy Division 2010-10-22 12:55 |
| #1 Great Idea. Partisan, uneducated, and vindictive. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2010-10-22 11:38 |