Portland Press Herald: Political ad restrictions back in court

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"A fight about what sort of political broadcast advertising should be allowed near an election will be argued before the U.S. Supreme Court for a second time Wednesday.

At stake is a landmark campaign law that Sen. Olympia Snowe helped write to close a loophole in a century-old prohibition against corporate influence in elections.

The high court has upheld the law once, but a district court has created standards since then for judging which ads that name candidates might be acceptable under the law."

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/070423politicalads.html

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