{"id":190,"date":"2006-06-29T10:07:16","date_gmt":"2006-06-29T14:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=190"},"modified":"2006-08-14T20:38:21","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T00:38:21","slug":"concision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=190","title":{"rendered":"Concision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If ever <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/06\/28\/AR2006062801981.html\">rules<\/a> should prove to difficult to manage, they should be done away with entirely:<\/p>\n<p>>Thomas recognized that the likelihood of the rule of law, of principled government action, is related inversely to the number of criteria the court concocts for determining what political contribution limits are just right. What qualifies judges for this judgment, or how the First Amendment permits it, is unclear. So Thomas <em>sensibly<\/em> advocated overturning Buckley, allowing people to give, and candidates to spend, what they like, and allowing voters to sort things out. What a concept.<\/p>\n<p>Justice Thomas ought to consult the previous post on interpreting the Constitution.  Sometimes the 10 simple rules are not so simple.  But the dumb thing about this is the suggestion that the complexity of the situation warrants (in virtue of its complexity) the simple solution of dumping the whole idea of regulating campaign finance altogether.  Perhaps&#8211;and maybe I&#8217;m a communist radical&#8211;it warrants a more sensible set of rules, the kind of rules (or guidelines for rules) one would hope an independent body such as the Supreme Court of the United States might be able to concoct, as if it were their job.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If ever rules should prove to difficult to manage, they should be done away with entirely: >Thomas recognized that the likelihood of the rule of law, of principled government action, is related inversely to the number of criteria the court concocts for determining what political contribution limits are just right. What qualifies judges for this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=190\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Concision<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-will","category-ignoratio-elenchi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}