Legal Challenge Targets Amended Election Ad Rules

The Center for Individual Freedom has made good on its vow to challenge the special session legislation that attempted to fix the state electioneering communications law targeted by the Alexandria, Va., group in a federal lawsuit.

The center has supplemented its U.S. District Court filings to object to the statutes as amended, arguing they are also constitutionally infirm, The Associated Press reports.

The development follows word that Secretary of State Betty Ireland, as the chief elections officer, plans to enforce the legislation after deeming it outside the scope of the partial preliminary injunction won earlier by the center.