May 4, 2009 12:27PM 

# Free Speech v. The Federal Election Commission 

By Cato Editors 

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The so-called Citizens United case offers the Supreme Court a chance to severely curtail the free speech abuses of the Federal Election Commission. [John Samples](https://www.cato.org/people/john-samples), Director of the Cato Institute’s Center for Representative Government, Institute for Justice Senior Attorney Steve Simpson and George Mason University law professor Allison Hayward weigh in. You can subscribe to Cato’s YouTube videos [here](http://www.youtube.com/catoinstitutevideo) and our Weekly Video podcast [here](https://www.cato.org/weekly/).

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