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According to Obama administration lawyers, the McCain- Feingold campaign-finance law empowers the federal government to censor books and films if their content and funding do not conform to its stipulations.(The Week)(John McCain and Russ Feingold)(Barack Obama)(Brief article)

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* According to Obama administration lawyers, the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance law empowers the federal government to censor books and films if their content and funding do not conform to its stipulations. At issue is a film called Hillary: The Movie, a documentary produced by the nonprofit group Citizens United, which did not wish to see Senator Clinton elected president. McCain-Feingold prohibits so much as mentioning a candidate's name in pre-election communications paid for by unions or corporations, so the government forbade distribution of the film, which was to have been made available on a pay-per-view basis. The ...

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