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OPEDVIEWS OF THE CAPITAL TIMESOne goodthing aboutTrumpcrisp saluteFor once I’m going to say something nice about Donald Trump, so all you Trump lovers who delight in peppering me with insulting emails, pay attention.I rate the snappy salutes he gives to his military guards when he gets off and on Air Force One and when he meets themin other situations as the best salutes I’veever seen from a president.It's comparable to that of a crusty Marine drill sergeant or many ^ **% of the gung-ho soldiersI’ve encountered through the years. It’s crisp and snappy, the fingers are rigid and the palm is where it should be. I’m not sureDAVEZWEIFELwhere he learned it. He didgo to a military school for a few years as a youth, butnever served in the military itself because of bone spurs in one of his feet.So there. Don’t say I never said anything good about the man.Actually, presidential salutes do not have a long history. They are said to have begun with Ronald Reagan - why, no one knows for sure — but after Reagan the salutes were continued by both Bushes, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. Trump’s salute beats them all.Interestingly, there’s been a lot of controversy over a president saluting. Military purists like to point out that the president is not a member of the military, even though he’s commander in chief. That’s not technicallv a military title, butBUMbeen unfairly maligned. ’‘Here you had a law which made it a crime to put out a movie criticizing a major candidate for the presidency of the United States,” he says. The First Amendment, wrote Anthony Kennedy, “prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech.”Critics say the conservative justices saw it that way because corporate spending tends to favor conservative causes (see: Koch brothers). Some other free speech rulings, says Stone, could also be ascribed to a rightward bias -such as invalidating rules restricting protests at abortion clinics and overturning a law allowing doctors to keep private the medicines they prescribe.But as Gora notes, many of the court’s First Amendment decisions haven’tJ. SCOTT APPLEWHITEThe addition of Neil Gorsuch, left, to the Supreme Court run by Chief Justice John Roberts, right, bodes well for free speech.Court has beenfree speec i champHICAGO — Barack Obama had his share of poor decisions and out -right failures. One of his worst moments came during his 2010 State of the Union address. With six justices seated in front of him, he upbraided the Supreme Court for a decision on campaign finance regulation.“With all due deference to separation of powers,” he said, “last week the Supreme Court reversed a century of lawthat, I believe, will open the floodgates for special interests, including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections.”It was a rude breach of STEVE protocol, inducing Justice CHAPMAN Samuel Alito to shake his _ head and mouth, “Not
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