arcady opened this issue on Apr 16, 2002 ยท 105 posts
VirtualSite posted Wed, 17 April 2002 at 8:26 AM
I actually sat down and read the judgment last night (yeah, I know, boring night, nothing good on TV), and it appears the Supremes are just lobbing the ball back at the government to try again with a new version. I was pretty surprised to see a conservative court striking this down until I read this monster and found that it was still acting as a conservative court, adhering to the absolute letter of the law. What it told the government was, in essence, "yep, we need a law, but not this one." I'll be interested to see if the government now tries again.