and maybe the most significant aside from the future evaluation of success in Iraq, will be his appointments of John Roberts and Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, on which I have previously commented. More recent evidence here are the decision in Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission and the likely decision in McDonald vs. Chicago. In Citizens United, the Court bailed out Bush in his failure to veto the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Act, which had severely limited free speech in elections, by reversing key elements of the bill and re-establishing the First Amendment right to free speech for corporations and unions. This is a far reaching landmark and, of course, the Democrats are crying foul and have already introduced legislation that would reinstitute the limits on corporations, but not disturb the free speech of labor unions, trial lawyers, and other favored interests of the left. In the McDonald case, based on recently conducted oral arguments, the Court is very likely to extend the ban on federal restrictions on the individual right to bear arms in the recently decided District of Columbia vs. Heller case to similar gun control laws enacted by the states. The grounding of this decision should be evident in the Second Amendment and it, along with the decision in Heller, will be milestones. In these and a growing number of cases, we have decisions that would have been inconceivable without the change in the dynamics of the Court produced by the Bush appointments.
