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Politics : Have you read your constitution today?
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To: LPS5 who wrote (369)9/7/2004 10:47:53 PM
From: TimF of 403
 
How about the 1st amendment?

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Anti-Abortion Group Wants Its Ads to Run

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Wisconsin anti-abortion group asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to let it run ads this fall despite a campaign finance law's restrictions on election-time political commercials.

A three-judge panel ruled last month that the law barred Wisconsin Right to Life from running ads that mention Sen. Russell Feingold, a Wisconsin Democrat who is up for re-election. Feingold is also a co-author of the campaign law.

Under the 2002 law, interest group ads like the 30-second television commercial by the Wisconsin group are banned 30 days before the primary and 60 days before the general election. The Supreme Court upheld the law last year.

In paperwork filed with Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, Wisconsin Right to Life attorney James Bopp Jr. said the group plans to spend $100,000 on the ads if the high court agrees. He said the radio and television ads are part of a grass-roots lobbying effort.

The commercials ask people to call Feingold and another Democratic senator, urging them to oppose filibusters of President Bush's judicial nominees. The group wants Bush to fill judicial vacancies with judges who support restrictions on abortion.

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