Wisconsin Right to Life v. FEC
November 1, 2005
On September 27, 2005, the Supreme Court agreed to hear Wisconsin Right to Life's challenge to the ban on corporate financing of electioneering communications. The plaintiff has asked the Court to find the ban unconstitutional as applied to certain grass-roots lobbying activities. Earlier this year, a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia had dismissed this case, with prejudice, finding that the Supreme Court's decision in McConnell v. FEC precluded the plaintiff's challenge. See the July 2005 Record.