With regard to this post, a Facebook correspondent remarks,
I don’t understand how that law’s directive that a person cannot even talk to their lawyer can be constitutional.
Nor do I. As an engineer I like stable systems with predictable behaviors. In the area of campaign finances I’ve seen proposals for public financing come and go; restrictions on financing gradually eroded, until predictions on the size of your war-chest just to play in the next Presidential election have reached $2 billion. People are upset on both sides of the aisle (i.e., system instability), but there doesn’t seem to be a way to modify the system acceptable to courts and candidates. Perhaps this is a continuous rupture in the side of American-style democracy…
Alternate conclusion: when you’re the pre-eminent nation in the world, the scramble to the very top of the pyramid results in surreal landscapes.
