Third Time's A Charm?

The House Judiciary Committee is again trying to salvage West Virginia's stab at regulating election-time ads from non-candidates and groups not already required to disclose their spending and donors, The Associated Press reports.

The bill advanced late Thursday aims to resolve concerns from two different federal judges who have partly blocked the election ad rules as unconstitutionally vague.

Several committee members cited those prior rulings, and noted that the underlying legal challenge remains, to question the wisdom of this latest effort.