Certainly I trust the courts at least a little more than I do the legislature. The current Supreme Court, for example in the _McIntyre_ case and the CDA, has been quite good on traditional free speech cases. But courts are much more deferential to the government on national security issues, even trumped-up ones. While the right to speak privately is (I believe) an important free speech issue, traditional jurists may be reluctant to agree. In other words: don't rely on the current Supreme Court to overturn a mandatory-GAK law, especially if it has holes cut out of the escrow fabric for corporations, etc. -Declan At 19:21 -0400 10/10/97, Ryan Anderson wrote:
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At 01:32 PM 10/10/97 -0400, Anonymous wrote:
Actually, I think it's a little more likely that they'll get disgusted with
Congress, and collect some money for the ACLU to use to pay their lawyers in the instant filing of the consitutionality challenge.
Seems to be a much more productive way to spend your money (long-term).
Bullshit! Fuck the lawyers!
By wasting time and money in the courts bickering about the stupid laws that
buffoons in Congress pass in order to justify their existence, we are only ignoring the real issue: you cannot use the system to change the system.
That's the point - you ignore the legislation until it becomes a problem for you. Then you challenge it and get a legal precedent to stop it from happening again.
The judicial system is in *much* better shape than the legislative system (even though they are strongly related)
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