Sunday, December 24, 2006

Court allows a LITTLE bit of Free Speech

We read:

"A U.S. court ruled that the 2002 federal campaign-finance law went too far in barring corporations, labor unions and other interest groups from directly funding broadcast ads that mention federal candidates.

A divided three-judge panel, ruling in a challenge by Wisconsin Right to Life Inc., said the organizations have a free- speech right to directly fund ads that name a candidate, as long as they don't endorse or oppose the candidate.

Source

"as long as they don't endorse or oppose the candidate" is a rather large restriction.

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