Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc. v. FEC

Case Updates

Agreeing with NCLC, the Supreme Court vacated and remanded the three-judge district court’s decision that McConnell v. F.E.C. precluded any constitutional challenge to the Bipartisan Campaign Finance Reform Act.

Underscoring the centrality of grassroots lobbying to the core concerns underpinning the First Amendment, NCLC urged the Supreme Court to resolve this as-applied constitutional challenge to the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act and find that ads which concern active legislative issues and which urge viewers to contact their elected representatives should be given First Amendment Protection. Without such protection, the Act would not permit grassroots lobbying ads to be aired within sixty days of a general election and thirty days of a primary election.