PPH wrote: That means: someone has to violate the law and then spend years and millions of dollars (occasionally contributed by advocacy organizations) to see the case through the requisite trial and appeals.
Actually, laws that someone believes violate the constitution can be challenged by writ without waiting to be arrested. Scores of anti-abortion laws have been struck down this way without a single arrest/prosecution being made.
This is a terrible law, of course, from many standpoints. Not the least of which is that anonymous pamphleteering was one of the main ways the patriots of this country spread their revolutionary thinking. If everything you say must be with your name attached you will not have freedom - when the government gets out of control - who will be willing to speak out against it under the threat of prosecution or persecution.
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PPH wrote: That means: someone has to violate the law and then spend years and millions of dollars (occasionally contributed by advocacy organizations) to see the case through the requisite trial and appeals.
Actually, laws that someone believes violate the constitution can be challenged by writ without waiting to be arrested. Scores of anti-abortion laws have been struck down this way without a single arrest/prosecution being made.
This is a terrible law, of course, from many standpoints. Not the least of which is that anonymous pamphleteering was one of the main ways the patriots of this country spread their revolutionary thinking. If everything you say must be with your name attached you will not have freedom - when the government gets out of control - who will be willing to speak out against it under the threat of prosecution or persecution.