On January 23, 2006, the US Supreme Court ruled that a lower court had misinterpreted a prior case pertaining to campaign financing and remanded the case for reconsideration. The Supreme Court issued a per curium opinion saying the lower court had misread a 2003 ruling that upheld a federal campaign finance law, but specifically stated that the ruling "did not purport to resolve future as-applied challenges." The section in question of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 was eventually ruled unconstitutional, when the case returned to the Supreme Court in April 2007.



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