Legal Opinion
Federal Election Commission v. Wisconsin Right to Life, Inc.
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 25, 2007No. 06-969PublishedCited by 629 opinions
1Judgment of the CourtChief Justice Roberts
Section 203 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (BCRA), 116 Stat. 91, 2 U. S. C. §441b(b)(2) (2000 ed., Supp. IV), makes it a federal crime for any corporation to *456broadcast, shortly before an election, any communication that names a federal candidate for elected office and is targeted to the electorate. In McConnell v. Federal Election Comm’n, 540 U. S. 93 (2003), this Court considered whether §203 was facially overbroad under the First Amendment because it captured within its reach not only campaign speech, or “express advocacy,” but also speech about public issues more generally,…
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