So it’s not every day you get to hear about how a movie changed the world, but this is definitely one of those times. Hillary the Movie, a searing documentary about Hillary Clinton (I literally cannot hear that woman’s name without thinking about the Paul Wall song line: “Got a bill in my mouth like I’m Hillary Rodham“), is redefining the McCain-Feingold act.
See, once the movie was finished, they wanted to run commercials for it on a cable video-on-demand service. But a federal judge ruled back in 2008 that it would’ve violated the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law. The judge called it “electioneering communications”. The guys behind the film promptly argued that such a thing was a violation of the First Amendment.
Seems like an overapplication of the law to me, and hopefully it’ll be changed to cover this kind of thing in the future. There’s a limit, and this has crossed it.
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