Supreme Court Appears Divided Over Hillary Clinton Movie in Campaign Finance Case
The Supreme Court’s weakened support for the McCain-Feingold campaign law seemed to slip further Tuesday as the justices debated whether an anti-Hillary Clinton movie released during the 2008 presidential campaign should be regulated as a campaign advertisement or protected under the First Amendment. The oral argument yielded few signals about how the case would come out — until the government’s defense of the law raised the specter of prohibitions being placed on book publication in some circumstances.
