High Court Overturns Hein

In a disgusting display of pandering to the Religious Right, the Supremes today issued its long-awaited decision in Hein v. Freedom From Religion Foundation, and -- no surprise here -- voted 5-4 that federal taxpayers do not have the right to challenge the constituionality of Der Monkey Fuehrer's so-called Faith Based Initiatives.

In brief, the plaintiffs argued that the doling out of federal tax money to these "faith-based" groups -- nearly all of them of the Fundo stripe -- violated the wall of separation between church and state.

Which it does. And that's not what the court ruled on. Instead, in a masterpiece of legal parsing, it held that the plaintiffs had no standing to sue.

No standing. Taxpayer money being used to fund religious organization, and the taxpayers themselves have "no standing".

The best quote to come out of this came from Sammy The Fixer Alito: "Tt is a complete fiction to argue that an unconstitutional (sic!) federal expenditure causes an individual federal taxpayer any measurable economic harm".

Jesus, what is with that bunch of woolly-brained morons?

This decision holds that taxpayers have standing only in expenditures specifically authorized by the legislative branch. What a bunch of crap that is -- if congress didn't give the money to the executive branch, they wouldn't have in the first place.

Okay, then, if I have no say in how my tax money is being spent unconstitionally, then maybe I'll just stop paying it. This is taxation without representation, and we already fought one revolution over it.