Op-ed on McCain Feingold
Charles Fried, former Solicitor General, former Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and professor of con law at Harvard has an op-ed in today's New York Times. Fried points out a provision in the McCain-Feingold law that will prohibit 501(c)(4) organizations from making "electioneering communications" (that is, menitoning a federal candidate via an ad on TV, radio, cable, or satellite) within 60 days before a general election or 30 days before a primary. This is one of those exceptions to an exception -- but Section 204 (the provision Fried mentions) completely swallows the exception for 501(c)(4) organizations found in Section 203.
This is one provision I am fairly sure will be struck by the courts.