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"Hillary: The Movie" Headed For The Supreme Court

Yesterday, a lawyer for Citizens United filed a notice with the U.S. District Court that it will be taking its challenge of the McCain-Feingold act to the Supreme Court. The conservative advocacy group has sued the Federal Election Commission to try to win approval to broadcast ads for its anti-Hillary movie without having to comply with campaign finance laws requiring the group to disclose its donors. Citizens United has argued that "Hillary: The Movie" is a documentary, not campaign propaganda, and that the ads are protected commercial speech advertising the film.

Those arguments literally got laughed out of federal court last week in a hearing on the case. Tuesday, a three-judge panel formally ruled against Citizens United, saying that, “The Movie is susceptible of no other interpretation than to inform the electorate that Senator Clinton is unfit for office, that the United States would be a dangerous place in a President Hillary Clinton world, and that viewers should vote against her.”

Undaunted, Citizens United has notified the court that it intends to appeal, and will be asking the Supreme Court for an expedited decision so that it could potentially air the ads during the election season. While some of the group's arguments about the nature of the film are indeed enough to get a federal judge to laugh, some of the more substantive arguments in its appeal should cause concern for campaign finance watchdogs. If Citizens United should happen to win its case, outside interest groups will be free to run all sorts of "issue ads" against political candidates during elections, without ever having to disclose who paid for them.

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There's plenty of time after Hillary wins the nomination to swift-boat her. Are the knuckle-draggers doing it now because they are afraid?

Posted by: leftofliberal on 01/17/08 at 4:23 PM Respond

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Posted by: yu on 01/17/08 at 5:44 PM Respond

The "knuckle draggers" are doing it now in order to allow time for Bush's Supreme Court to rule in their favor in time for the election.

Meanwhile, Diebold and even the transporter of voting machines are firmly Republican, and recent history shows that Republicans are not against rigging elections--most probably because they are convinced they are right and everyone else is wrong and unfit to govern, and therefore for Republicans to rig an election is not actually a bad thing to do.

Posted by: bob on 01/18/08 at 11:24 AM Respond