As Marc Ambinder reported last week, the conservative Judicial Confirmation Network is putting $1 million behind an ad that suggests Barack Obama's associations with Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers and Tony Rezko shed light on what Supreme Court Justices he might select as president. The ad hit national cable Monday, and as of that time, none of the group's donors had been disclosed on the FEC's website. A spokesperson for the Judicial Confirmation Network reached by phone on Monday said he could not answer how the ad had been paid for, or whether the group would be filing disclosure reports with the FEC. (The spokesman offered to put the Huffington Post in touch with the group's legal experts, but has thus far not delivered on that.) But, as has been noted previously, Judicial Confirmation Watch is not a 527 group -- the most...
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