What case involving the McCain-Feingold Act, will the Supreme Court be hearing?”
Financing political campaigns has primarily become a corrupt system of legalized bribery and the U.S. Supreme Court, in the case of Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (FEC), may be preparing to open the floodgates for even more corruption. In 2008, Citizens United, a conservative group, produced “Hillary: The Movie,” a 90-minute hatchet job attacking then-Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was seeking the Democratic presidential nomination. The FEC ruled that the movie was an electioneering communication, not a documentary, and was therefore regulated under the 2002 McCain-Feingold Act, which bans airing such pieces and their ads during specific times close to election dates and requires disclosure of the financial backers, which in this case were a mix of corporate and individual donors. A three-judge U.S. District Court panel agreed with the FEC, blocking cable television airings and ads. Clinton lost her presidential bid to then-Sen. Barack Obama before the movie could be
