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In the movie Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, a senator passes away and they must appoint a new one. When this senator died they had a vacancy. When Mr. Smith came to Washington the press took pictures and wrote things about him in the news paper. What they had wrote about him was slander. The press can write anything about that person in the paper because of Amendment 1, “Freedom of the Press.” When Mr. Smith arrives in his new office and meets his secretary he want’s to introduce a bill into the senate. When Senator Payne says “No you can’t build a boys’ camp because a dam is going to be built there.” Smith gets angry so he goes into the senate room and decides to filibuster on his bill. The other members of the Senate didn’t want him to get his bill passed because they think he is a liar so they try to cloture his bill. When the movie started and the senator passed away, there was a vacancy in the Senate. They have a couple of choices they can use. One the can have an election to see who will best fill his or her place. They can pick someone out of nowhere to do the job, or they can leave the seat empty until the next election. In this case they didn’t leave the seat open they chose a ma