This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Tuesday, September 15, 2015.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has a personal connection to the Citizens United Supreme Court case.

It was after all a case about a movie criticizing her.

And perhaps not surprisingly, Clinton wants to overturn that decision.

Trevor Burris, a research fellow at the Cato Institute, comments.

I have said to people and I've heard it said elsewhere that the biggest problem with the Citizens United case is that it wasn't a case

about Fahrenheit 9-11. It could have been a case about Fahrenheit 9-11. In 2004 the

group Citizens United which was a devoted conservative nonprofit

that is to wants to make movies about criticizing, usually criticizing Democrats.

But they filed a complaint with the FEC because Michael Morris Fair 9 911, which came out a little bit before the 2004 Carrie Bush election.

Now, this is the interesting thing.

The question was, was this an ad?

And it was in theater so it didn't really apply, but they were running ads for the movie on TV.

So the FEC got a complaint from Citizens United. Now of course that

underscores the fact that these campaign finance laws are used as part of the

arrows and the quiver of different political groups because almost every single one of these complaints

is filed by someone on the other side.

And if you're doing an election now you have lawyers watching the other side to see where

you can file a complaint.

So that's another problem with the FEC. But they file a complaint and they should have passed a lease about how we think Fair 9-911 is a corporate

expenditure that allows, the corporation of, I think it was Miramax or Michael Morris production company

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