"Court Overturns Limits on Political Ads, Part of the Campaign Finance Law"
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/22/washington/22campaign.html?ex=1324443600&en=2de18bd5e127daf4&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
" Using its corporate treasury, the group had paid for advertisements denouncing Senate filibusters of judicial nominees and urging viewers to contact either Senator Russell D. Feingold, who was up for re-election that year, or the state’s other Democratic senator, Herb Kohl, who was not.
Under the 2002 McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, groups wanting to broadcast advertisements that name federal candidates within 60 days before a general election, or 30 days before a primary, are required to follow strict rules on how they pay for them. The law requires that donors be disclosed and caps contributions to prevent secretive groups from advocating for or against candidates in thinly disguised advertisements known as issue ads."
2006-12-22
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