BNA offers this report ($), which begins: “The Supreme Court may get another chance soon to answer constitutional questions about the regulation of political messages aired during an election campaign, a lawyer for a conservative group challenging Federal Election Commission rules said Jan. 10. Attorney James Bopp indicated after a hearing by a lower court in Washington, D.C., that another appeal to the Supreme Court could be in the cards. The court hearing occurred in the latest challenge to FEC rules, brought by the conservative organization Citizens United, which is spearheaded by Bopp, a longtime critic of campaign finance regulations (Citizens United v. FEC, D. D.C., No. 07-2240, hearing 1/10/08).”
Another snippet: “Asked at one point by [Judge] Randolph what issue was being discussed in the film, Bopp responded: ‘That Hillary Clinton is a European Socialist.’ He added that this had ‘nothing to do’ with whether or not a viewer should vote for Clinton for president because the film does not call for a vote.”