Necessary Roughness

240 Congressmen, 60 Senators, and President Bush approved the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 despite its blatant attack on the First Amendment.

NewsMax reports that the Supreme Court rejected 5-4 the prohibition of a group’s ability to buy ads 30 days before an election to engage in grass-roots lobbying. This was prohibited in Section 203 of the BCRA. The Court found the prohibition unconstitutional, but it was not completely struck down, leaving open the necessity to define what speech is prohibited and what is protected.

The case is FEC v. Wisconson Right to Life, No. 06-969 (PDF).

Pity four justices couldn’t get this one right.