Going to court to stop political attack ads 

Posted: 7:35 pm Tue, October 19, 2010
By Gene Policinski
Special to The Daily Record

While the emergence of tea party candidates is getting headlines in this fall’s midterm elections, another trend with free-speech implications has popped up, as well — candidates and supporters going to court, not just the ballot box, to challenge opponents’ ads and claims. The nation’s founders and courts have provided wide protection for political speech. ...