{"id":6277,"date":"2010-07-27T17:19:57","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T21:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=6277"},"modified":"2010-07-27T18:01:56","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T22:01:56","slug":"first-amendment-victory-senate-blocks-disclose-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/6277\/first-amendment-victory-senate-blocks-disclose-act\/","title":{"rendered":"First Amendment Victory:  Senate Blocks DISCLOSE Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the flurry of inanity brought upon this nation by Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, it is important to stop and smell the roses of triumph.\u00a0 One arrived today when the Senate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cspan.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">blocked<\/a>, at least for now, the DISCLOSE Act.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That act would violate the First Amendment rights of free speech and free association in its attempt to reverse the Supreme Court&#8217;s correct <em>Citizens United v. FEC<\/em> decision, while <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703294904575385402114489796.html?mod=ITP_opinion_2\" target=\"_blank\">effectively exempting<\/a> politically powerful labor unions. \u00a0 Obama, Pelosi and Reid will surely follow with their usual bromides about &#8220;the people versus the powerful,&#8221; but the fact is that the DISCLOSE Act is nothing more than a scheme to enable the powerful, namely partisan Big Labor, at the expense of everyday citizens.\u00a0 It&#8217;s a welcome victory for free speech and freedom of association, and a stinging defeat for an Obama Administration that manages to pioneer new realms of cynical partisanship on a daily basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amid the flurry of inanity brought upon this nation by Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, it is important to stop and smell the roses of triumph.\u00a0 One arrived today when the Senate blocked, at least for now, the DISCLOSE Act.\u00a0 That act would violate the First Amendment rights of free speech and free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[911,1472,716,24,157,38,419],"class_list":["post-6277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-big-labor","tag-disclose-act","tag-first-amendment","tag-obama","tag-reid","tag-senate","tag-unions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6279,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6277\/revisions\/6279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}