WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court late Tuesday refused to allow a Wisconsin anti-abortion group to run ads close to the November election in violation of campaign law.
The ads urge voters to call Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., to demand he support President George W. Bush's judicial nominees.
Feingold is a co-author of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, sometimes called the McCain Feingold law, that bars the broadcast of independent political ads within 60 days of an election.
The request from the anti-abortion group was rejected by Chief Justice William Rehnquist in a two-paragraph order.
A lower-court ruling also sided against allowing the ads to run. The anti-abortion group wanted the Supreme Court to intervene and allow the ads to be run.
