Something is afoot at the SCOTUS. I don't know what it is...but it is causing great confusion. Unless you lived under a rock, you would've heard by now of the decision in Citizens United v. F.E.C. , where the SCOTUS held that corporations were entitled to the same free speech rights human individuals are entitled to, and therefore there should be no limits to corporate contributions to political campaigns (as money is the primary way corporations communicate). Everyone from the far right to the far left was outraged and only foreign interests and big corporations were overjoyed. We will likely not see much of the consequences of this decision until the Fall of this year. Today the SCOTUS decides in Holden v Humanitarian Law Project that it is constitutional to criminally prosecute individuals who provide material support to organizations designated as terrorist organizations by the State Department. What does one case have to do with the other? Hear me out. I go off on tang
These are the meandering thoughts of a smart and competent woman.