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Minnesota gagged the state judge with a law prohibiting judicial candidates from expressing their views on certain subjects. The U.S. Supreme Court heard Republican Wersal\u2019s free speech case on Tuesday, and weighed an impartial bench against judges\u2019 rights. Judge Wersal says the playing field wasn\u2019t level when he lost his 1998 race against former Minnesota Viking Alan Page, because he couldn\u2019t talk about the issues. <\/line>Thirty-eight states elect judges, and nine of those ban candidates from announcing their opinions on certain issues. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which has bought commercials in several of these races, sides with Judge Wersal, as do the American Center for Law and Justice, the ACLU and Ralph Nader\u2019s Public Citizen. These are both conservative and<\/emphasize> liberal groups, you\u2019ll notice. <\/line>The ACLU says the First Amendment prohibits government regulation of what voters may consider in electing candidates. Well, yes, it does, according to members of Congress and the president who is going to sign the bill. This case is a snapshot of what\u2019s coming up in CFR. <\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s a great way of putting it: the First Amendment will now, because of its being ignored, permit the government to dictate what voters may consider in electing candidates for public office. I don\u2019t mean just in this particular case here with the judge, but in all races. Because when you ban political commercials 60 days before an election, you are, in a sense, dictating what voters may consider because you\u2019re not allowing them to hear anything.<\/line>This judge is just a perfect little microcosm of the flaws of CFR. He can\u2019t say what he\u2019s going to do if he\u2019s elected. Why run? Why would anybody vote for the guy anyway? Alan Page is the incumbent, the safe choice, you know what you\u2019ve got, so why vote for the challenger? Everything that\u2019s wrong with CFR from the constitutionality to the incumbent protection characteristics is on display in this test case, because it\u2019s being argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minnesota gagged the state judge with a law prohibiting judicial candidates from expressing their views on certain subjects. The U.S. Supreme Court heard Republican Wersal\u2019s free speech case on Tuesday, and weighed an impartial bench against judges\u2019 rights. 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