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Campaign-finance law goes too far in limiting ads, court rules

A U.S. court ruled that the 2002 federal campaign-finance law went too far in barring corporations, labor unions and other interest groups from directly funding broadcast ads that mention federal candidates. A divided three-judge panel, ruling in a challenge by Wisconsin Right to Life, said the organizations had a free-speech right to directly fund ads that ...

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