GOP Challenges State's Authority to Establish Certain Campaign Contribution Limits

Posted by Jim Spence on Sunday, October 9, 2011
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NMPolitics - The Republican Party of New Mexico and others have filed a lawsuit challenging the state law that limits the size of campaign contributions. The lawsuit seeks to void the $5,000 limits placed on donations to political parties, from national parties to state parties, from state parties to county parties, from parties to candidates or candidates’ political action committees, and on contributions made for the purpose of forming independent expenditures. It doesn’t challenge limits on the size of donations individuals can make to candidates. “Today we filed a lawsuit to protect New Mexicans’ right to freedom of speech,” state GOP Executive Director Bryan Watkins said in a news release. “We are confident that we will be successful in this case, as cases from around the country have found in favor of protection of freedom of speech, including a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision.” Read full story here: News New Mexico
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Anonymous said...

Some background and truth:

The First Amendment of the Constitution for the United States of America DOES NOT BIND the states.

Never did. Never was meant to. Madison stated during the first Congress that freedom of speech, religion, etc MUST BE LEFT UP TO EACH STATE according to each state's constitution.

So from the 1790s until the 1930s, it was well known that the First Amendment had no authority of state governments. And truthfully it still does not.

Look at the language: Congress shall make no law...

What the heck does that tell you?

How did we arrive where we are now? In the 1920s and 1930s, the supreme court invented from whole cloth, out of the air, the doctrine of incorporation whereby the supreme court decide that the First Amendment bound the states through the 14th Amendment. But this was and is BS.

The supreme Court is subordinate to the Constitution and as such cannot decide what anything in the Constitution means. Can you define YOUR boss's authority? Sure!

State of NM laws that may of may not violate the objects of the First Amendment can only be challenged legitimately through the NM constitution.

The system does not work this way but this is how, if we had a functional constitutional system, it would work.

October 10, 2011 at 10:23 AM

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