The Supreme Court has struck down a century-old Montana law banning
corporate campaign spending. Montana was sued when it invoked the ban to
prevent corporate money from flooding state and local political races. A
right-wing nonprofit argued the state’s ban violates the 2010 Citizens
United ruling that allowed corporations to spend unlimited amounts in
federal elections. On Monday, the Supreme Court agreed, blocking
Montana’s law in a divided five-to-four ruling. The decision has drawn a
rare bipartisan rebuke from Montana officials. We speak to John
Bonifaz, co-founder and director of Free Speech for People and the legal
director of Voter Action. "For more than a century, Montana had
[barred] corporate money in elections," Bonifaz says. "Now the United
States Supreme Court has said to the state of Montana that the facts
don’t matter. ... [We demand] a constitutional amendment to overturn the
Supreme Court and to make clear that we the people, not we the
corporations, rule in America."Video
Source: Democracy Now!
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