US Supreme Court Accepts Case on McCain-Feingold Law

As expected, the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear Wisconsin Right to Life v Federal Election Commission. The Court set an expedited briefing schedule, so that oral arguments will be in May or June 2007. This is the case in which the lower court had ruled that the McCain-Feingold law is unconstitutional as applied in certain situations. Specifically, the court below had held that the part of the law banning almost all corporations from paying for broadcasts that mention candidates (within 60 days of an election) is unconstitutional as applied to ads that don’t even hint how someone should vote.


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