Their goal was to cast a shadow on this candidate and place him in the negative opinions of the electorate. In 2008, Citizens United completed the production of this documentary and decided to broadcast it on television (Sitaraman, 2014). As Citizens United knew, doing so within 60 days of a general election or 30 days of a primary violates the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002. This set in motion the landmark case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission 2010. Before the Supreme Court , this case was compared to the precedent established in Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, which dealt with a similar issue. The Court was expected to rule on the narrow question originally presented: Could this conservative lobbying group, Citizens United, show its film? Citizens United argued that section 203 of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act violated the First Amendment and when applied to their documentary and related advertisements, and sections 201 and 203 were also unconstitutional when applied to the circumstances (Sitaraman, 2014). The U.S. District Court denied their order. Article 203 was not unconstitutional. The district court also found that The Movie was not directly degrading to Clinton