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SCOTUS will rule on Hillary movie
Ben Smith's Blog — ... The least of the problems of Citizens United's anti-Hillary Hillary: The Movie turned out to be the campaign finance restriction on showing it, but it's interesting law, and the Supreme Court has taken up the case. ...

Important New Campaign Finance Case To Be Decided by the U.S. Supreme Court:
The Volokh Conspiracy — It's Citizens United v. FEC , which the Court just agreed to hear. Here's SCOTUSblog's summary: The new campaign finance case involves a plea by a conservative advocacy group, Citizens United, to create a new exception to a 2002 law’s ban on radio or TV ads that corporations and labor unions air close to election time, so that the ban would not apply to a feature-length movie aimed at a candidate for President or for Congress. The appeal also urges the Court to strike down the 2002 law’s disclosure requirement for election-season broadcast ads when those ads are not subject ...

High Court Won't Consider Second W.Va. Judicial Bias Case
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society — ... because he had referred to its executive director, Don L. Blankenship, as a clown, evil and stupid. Earlier this year, the high court announced it would hear a case involving Massey. In that case, Caperton v. A.T. Massey Coal Company, Justice Brent D. Benjamin had also refused to disqualify himself from hearing cases involving the coal company even though he received more than $3 million from Blankenship to win his state Supreme Court seat. The high court must decide in the Caperton case whether the Constitution’s due process clause required ...