{"id":72727,"date":"2019-12-04T05:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72727"},"modified":"2019-12-02T07:45:29","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T13:45:29","slug":"fair-is-fair-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=72727","title":{"rendered":"Fair Is Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Liberals insist Citizens United was wrongly decided and must be overturned.&nbsp; Really?&nbsp; The Supreme Court made a mistake?&nbsp; A mistaken decision must be overturned?&nbsp;<br>Okay, I&#8217;m good with that.&nbsp; But Citizens United concerns a narrow area of free speech as it applies to political campaigns. Let&#8217;s start with cases that have broader societal impact, because the errors those cases cause are much greater.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br>Miranda v. Arizona<br>Roe v. Wade<br>Obergefell v. Hodges<br>Each of these stole the power of self-government from the states, where it rightfully belongs.&nbsp; Let&#8217;s reverse all of them, then we can discuss why Hillary should be exempt from criticism.&nbsp;<br>Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>You notice, over time, how &#8220;logical consistency&#8221; isn&#8217;t much of a prioriity to Big Left. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberals insist Citizens United was wrongly decided and must be overturned.&nbsp; Really?&nbsp; The Supreme Court made a mistake?&nbsp; A mistaken decision must be overturned?&nbsp;Okay, I&#8217;m good with that.&nbsp; But Citizens United concerns a narrow area of free speech as it applies to political campaigns. Let&#8217;s start with cases that have broader societal impact, because the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[327,321,323,82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-activism","category-big-left","category-big-leftymoney","category-scotus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=72727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72749,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72727\/revisions\/72749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=72727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=72727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=72727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}