I'm actually speechless.

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Manchurian Candidates: Supreme Court Allows China And Others Unlimited Spending In US Elections

Srsly?

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However, there were First Amendment issues at stake (http://www.fixthefec.org/node/1129). Do you want our government to be banning books?

When the Supreme Court first heard the case last March, Deputy Solicitor General Malcolm L. Stewart, representing the FEC, was pulled into a discussion of an issue that brought him down a slippery slope: If the movie had been a book instead, would the government ban publishing the book if it mentioned a candidate for office within the election time frame?

Stewart said that it could.

"That's pretty incredible," said Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr.

Then came questions about electronic devices like the Kindle.

"If it has one name, one use of the candidate's name, it would be covered, correct?" asked Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.

"That's correct," Stewart replied.

"It's a 500-page book, and at the end it says, 'And so vote for X,' the government could ban that?" Roberts asked again.

In retrospect, Bossie said, this was the moment that turned a majority of the bench against the FEC and in favor of Citizens United.

"That sent a chill down the Supreme Court," Bossie said. The argument became a "point of demarcation."