ANOTHER SUPREME SCREWUP

6--26--2000

The Supreme Court, in an unconstitutional, muddled-legal-thinking display of arrogance, declared that open party primary elections were "unconstitutional." Where this nonsensical thinking came from can only be speculated; after all, the justices are lawyers, marinated with years of the questionable, twisted, and disconnected thought processes that lawyers constantly invoke.

But their declaration that such primaries transgress the First Amendment is speciously illogical.

Here is the actual wording of the Constitution's First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or Prohibiting the Free Exercise Thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Where, pray tell, is there found in those words the slightest reference or even remotest inference to elections or primary election methodologies? The justices' claims amount to nothing more than pure judicial poppycock.