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Article: Supreme Court Orders District Court to Reconsider Campaign "Reform" Case.
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- National Right to Life News
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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Acting with unusual dispatch, on January 23 a unanimous Supreme Court told the government and a federal district court panel that the justices had not foreclosed future challenges to the so-called "Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002," more commonly known as the McCain-Feingold law after its authors. The three-page ruling came only six days after the justices heard oral arguments in the case of Wisconsin Right to Life v. FEC.
In 2003, in McConnell v. FEC the High Court upheld the core of McCain-Feingold in a split 54 decision. But Wisconsin RTL challenged a portion of the law that dealt with "electioneering communication"what McCain-Feingold calls broadcast ...