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# featuring John Samples discussing political free speech. 

The recent Supreme Court decision in *FEC v. Wisconsin Right to Life* marks a change in direction in judicial doctrines concerning campaign finance. As recently as 2003, a majority of the Court upheld the strictures on free speech enacted in McCain-Feingold. In *Wisconsin Right to Life*, the Court forcefully stated that the benefit of the doubt lies with freedom of speech and not with the government. John Samples, the director of Cato’s Center for Representative Government, discusses the implications of the case. 

(See the full event: [The End of Campaign Finance Reform?](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=4011).) 

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