Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Larry Craig Hearts The Constitution

While we're on the subject of conservative Republican loons, Senator Larry Craig's attempt to get his guilty plea from the infamous Minneapolis-St. Paul airport men's room toilet stall incident thrown out has been rejected by yet another court.

Craig's lawyers argued, among other things, that the senator's foot tapping in the stall should be protected as free speech under the First Amendment of the Constitution, a concept and a document that he and his GOP brethren have regularly shat on.

"[E]ven if appellant's foot-tapping and the movement of his foot towards the undercover officer's stall are considered 'speech,' ", the court ruled, "They would be intrusive speech directed at a captive audience, and the government may prohibit them."

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