From the James Madison Center: Today the Christian Civic League of Maine (“CCL”), a nonprofit Maine corporation, filed suit to secure a preliminary and permanent injunction allowing it to broadcast a grassroots lobbying advertisement in support of the federal Marriage Protection Amendment before a Senate vote on the measure in early June. Starting in mid-May, CCL will air a radio ad asking listeners to call Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins and urge them to support the Amendment, designed to grant constitutional protection to a traditional definition of marriage. Because it names Sen. Snowe, who is up for reelection this year, CCL’s grassroots lobbying ad qualifies as an electioneering communication, which CCL is prohibited from doing beginning May 14, 2006, when the “blackout period” of the BCRA prohibiting such broadcasts will begin.