The State of Wisconsin had only two choices: capitulate or lose in court.
The state capitulated Tuesday in a lawsuit over new rules regulating campaign-style ads, agreeing they should not be enforced….
The board and the groups that brought one of the lawsuits filed a joint stipulation Tuesday with the federal court in Madison in which the board agreed to a permanent injunction preventing the enforcement of the rules regarding issue advocacy….
Those rules applied to ads and other communications that praised or criticized candidates without telling people specifically to vote for or against them. The rules would require for the first time the disclosure of who funded those communications.
The groups said those rules violated their First Amendment right to free speech.
See, State agrees to drop new rules governing issue ads – JSOnline.