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http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_CAMPAIGN_FINANCE_MONTANA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-05-20-03-27-16HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Twenty-two states and the District of Columbia are backing Montana in its fight to prevent the U.S. Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United decision from being used to strike down state laws restricting corporate campaign spending.
The states led by New York are asking the high court to preserve Montana's state-level regulations on corporate political expenditures, according to a copy of a brief written by New York's attorney general's office and obtained by The Associated Press ahead of Monday's filing.
The Supreme Court is being asked to reverse a state court's decision to uphold the Montana law. Virginia-based American Tradition Partnership is asking the nation's high court to rule without a hearing because the group says the state law conflicts directly with the Citizens United decision that removed the federal ban on corporate campaign spending.
The Supreme Court has blocked the Montana law until it can look at the case.
The Montana case has prompted critics to hope the court will reverse itself on the controversial Citizens United ruling. The 22 states and D.C. say the Montana law is sharply different from the federal issues in the Citizens United case, so the ruling shouldn't apply to Montana's or other state laws regulating corporate campaign spending.
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APNewsBreak: 22 states join campaign finance fight (Original Post)
xchrom
May 2012
OP
marmar
(77,081 posts)1. Enthusiastic K&R
Haul Roberts and Scalia to court to testify.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)2. i would pay for a front row seat for that. nt
malaise
(269,045 posts)3. Don't forget
Uncle Tom Clarence
marmar
(77,081 posts)4. He'll just repeat whatever Massa Tony tells him to say.
nt