Montana supreme court says Citizens United doesn't count there

[gloraelin]

Montana’s Supreme Court has issued a stunning rebuke to the U.S. Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision in 2010 that infamously decreed corporations had constitutional rights to directly spend money on ‘independent expenditures’ in campaigns.

The Montana Court vigorously upheld the state’s right to regulate how corporations can raise and spend

Comments

[ladypeyton]

Here's hoping other states jump on the bandwagon.

On the other hand, it's a dangerous move because who's to say that some states will just move to declare that Roe V Wade doesn't apply to their state. We're halfway there already.

[beoweasel]

Yeah, this.

As much as I want to cheer for Montana's SC, I don't know if this is a good idea.

[archanglrobriel]

Totally this. We need Citizens United to be overturned, but we do NOT need individual states deciding that supreme court rulings they don't agree with don't apply in those states. Gay marriage decisions that will not be popular with a whole host of states are definitely in the pipeline and I'd rather not see this sort of precident set.

[skellington1]

...yeah. As much as I love this particular descision, that kind of precident is really worrying.

[kyra_neko_rei]

They already do under this same technicality