badgenome on 28 February 2012
| Mr Khan said: And the FEC would have been controlled by Republicans in regards to that 2004 bit, so clearly there was something different at play in Citizens United. |
I don't know what difference that should make, unless you're suggesting that Republicans are less inclined to censor opinions they dislike than are Democrats. Which is possible, I suppose, if you look at the where the parties tend to stand on things like the Fairness Doctrine and hate speech.
The funny thing is, Citizens United even brought a complaint against Fahrenheit 9/11 to the FEC in 2004 and had their concerns dismissed (rightly so). Four years later, the FEC stopped Citizens United from doing exactly what they'd previously condoned. And here we are.
