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Effete Snob

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10. The Citizen's United case

Sat Apr 23, 2022, 02:59 PM

Apr 2022

Lol, you left out what the expenditures were for.

Citizen's United was making a movie. Donors were funding the movie. The movie was going to be critical of Hillary Clinton. Regardless of their point of view, what gets dropped in the sleight of hand where you describe the case is that it was about producing a movie.

It only becomes an "election expenditure" when, through the magic of reclassification, the fact that the movie is critical of a political figure makes it classifiable as an in kind contribution.

To go the other way on this case would result in FEC review of a lot of political media.

https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-and-citizens-united

Most of the time, if you ask people "Hey, what was it the company Citizen's United was actually doing?" most seem to have no idea that they were making a movie.

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