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In 2002, Congress adopted a campaign finance law that, among other things, barred even nonprofit corporations like the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ from broadcasting any ad that named a federal candidate 30 days before a primary election or 60 days prior to a general election. The facial validity of that prohibition was upheld by the Supreme Court four years ago. The question now before the Court is how groups, like the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥, can establish a First Amendment right to broadcast "genuine" issue ads despite the law's otherwise absolute prohibition. Without a meaningful First Amendment exception, the ³Ô¹ÏÖ±²¥ could not even broadcast an ad in the pre-election period asking people to urge their representatives to restore the right to habeas corpus that Congress eliminated in the Military Commissions Act, passed last fall.