Ad case wins another look

Criaig Gilbert reports in today's Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that the United States Supreme Court's decision yesterday in Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. v. Federal Election Commission.

The group's lawsuit doesn't challenge the constitutionality of the [McCain-Feingold] law as written but challenges its application to the group's ad campaign. A lower court had ruled that such "as applied" challenges were not permitted under the Supreme Court's 2003 decision.

The high court rejected that reasoning Monday and unanimously sent the case back for the federal district court to consider the merits of the challenge of the group opposed to abortion.

Here is the Supreme Court's opinion.

Update: Reaction and comment at CourtWatch