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In 2002, Congress adopted a campaign finance law that, among other things, barred even nonprofit corporations like the ACLU 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 ACLU, 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 ACLU 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.