Bush-Appointed Judges Exempt Earmarks from First Amendment

The title (above this text on my blog) links to an article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about a ruling by Bush-appointed Seventh Circuit judges. The ruling upholds a federal earmark grant of taxpayer funds for a Catholic university program of "opportunities for spiritual growth, including prayer services, Mass, course work, and retreats." With Theo-Republican judges, the United States is rapidly becoming one more banana republic, just like the one that first gave vent to an observation increasingly applicable under such "non-activist" courts: "Constitution c'est papier."