It looks like the ACLU is the first group to take advantage of the Supreme Court ruling:


The Citizens' Voice:

Noting Thursday's decision by the Supreme Court that allows corporations and unions to buy political advertising, Barletta, a Republican, said the ACLU might have released the video to influence his campaign for Congress against long-time incumbent Rep. Paul Kanjorski, D-Nanticoke.

"I find it interesting that just one day after the Supreme Court makes a ruling that allows third parties to be more active in federal elections, the ACLU has decided to spend their resources to prop up Paul Kanjorski's campaign by attacking me," Barletta wrote.

Hazleton's law never took effect because of the court challenges. While the ACLU's video calls it unconstitutional, an Arizona law that penalized employers for hiring illegal aliens withstood a challenge from the ACLU in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, Kobach said.

Both sides in the Hazleton case await a ruling from the U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals, which heard an appeal of the case in Philadelphia on Oct. 30, 2008.