Ramtin Arablui and Randa Abdelfattah

And he says the laws chill political participation.

And that brings us back to Hillary the movie.

What is the truth about Hillary Rodham Clinton?

Remember, the Federal Elections Commission rules prohibited the film from being aired.

In 2007, Jim Bopp signed on as the lawyer for Citizens United, the organization behind the movie.

He saw Citizens United as a First Amendment rescue mission, if you will.

In a way, the case was similar to the other campaign finance cases he'd taken on before.

Those four main arguments that show political speech and paying for political speech are protected under the First Amendment.

In his telling, Citizens United is about freeing speech, not freeing money.

When he went before a federal court in 2008, he said the film was just like any other news program, like 60 Minutes, and so it should be allowed to be broadcast.

The judge laughed at him.

Citizens United lost the case.

But then it went to the Supreme Court, a court that had become more conservative in the 2000s.

So initially, the case is a kind of small case.

This is Northwestern law professor Michael Kang.

Citizens United is really about this obscure provision in McCain-Feingold.

Which prevented corporations or unions from funding certain ads that clearly mentioned candidates on broadcast television 30 days before a primary election.

So the really narrow question here is whether video on demand constituted a broadcast communication under McCain-Feingold.

Very limited, not likely to change campaign finance.

But when the case went up to the Supreme Court, something happened.