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Saturday, July 14, 2007
Courts - Wisconsin Right to Life moves again
Lyle Denniston posted an interesting long analysis at SCOTUSblog yesterday headed "WRTL moves quickly to exploit victory." Some quotes:
Less than three weeks after winning a significant victory in the Supreme Court over its right to broadcast ads during election seasons, a Wisconsin advocacy group has asked a three-judge U.S. District Court to rule quickly on the legality of an ad it had wanted to run in 2006. * * *The ILB's most recent entry on WRTL was this one from July 2nd headed "Indiana lawyer tackles campaign-finance, election laws, winning 4 out of 5 challenges."The Wisconsin Right to Life maneuvers in U.S. District Court in Washington indicated how energetically advocacy groups will seek to exploit the Justices' 5-4 decision on June 25 in Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life (06-969). (The case back in District Court is docketed as 04-1260, before a three-judge District Court.)
But the maneuvers by the group, an abortion opponent, also appeared designed to set up a new test case that might persuade the Supreme Court to go further, and strike down altogether the part of the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act that bars election-season radio, TV or cable ads that mention the name of a federal candidate. The Court did not go that far in the WRTL decision last month, although three Justices in the majority argued that it should have.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on July 14, 2007 05:14 PM
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