campaign finance == censorship

Topics: Civil Liberties
11 May 2006

From: Ervan Darnell

It doesn't get any clearer than this:

> A panel of three federal judges ruled unanimously Tuesday against a
> right-wing group that wants to air a radio ad against same-sex
> marriage in the run-up to Maine's June 13 primary. [...]"There can be
> no question that the governmental interest in maintaining the
> integrity of the electoral process is compelling," the three-member
> court found.

Flat out censorship of political speech is "maintaining integrity"??

http://news.yahoo.com/s/po/20060510/co_po/judgesnixantigaymarriagead
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