Unhappy with recent Supreme Court decisions supporting the First Amendment, some Democrat senators have arrived at an old solution: if you do not like the Constitution, amend it.  Angry with Supreme Court decisions like McCutcheon and Citizens United, which ruled that such efforts were unconstitutional, some Democrats have decided to attempt an end run around the First Amendment. The legislation they are promoting would limit not only partisan spending, but independent spending as well. Specifically, Democrat senators Charles Schumer from New York and Thomas Udall from New Mexico are proposing a constitutional amendment to restrict the freedom of people to finance elections. Schumer has maintained that not having limits on the financing of elections results in the “drowning” of opposition views.  This position is laughable on its face, since Citizens United and McCutcheon did not stop Obama from being re-elected, and as we have seen, the president seems to...(Read Full Post)