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Cato Video • July 15, 2012 

# The Future of *Citizens United*

The Supreme Court summarily rejected a claim that the First Amendment didn’t apply to Montana’s prohibitions on corporate spending on political speech. The Cato Institute’s John Samples comments on the future of free political speech given the continued challenges to the holdings of Citizens United. 

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