Big Contribution Country

John McCain will not be pleased:

The Supreme Court on Friday blocked Montana from enforcing state restrictions on corporate political spending while it considers arguments that those restrictions, enacted in the century-old Montana Corrupt Practices Act, were nullified by the 2010 Citizens United ruling.

In Citizens United, the justices voted 5-4 to strike down federal limits on corporate and union electioneering, saying Congress failed to show that its interest in fighting political corruption justified limits on campaign advertising.

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Montana's early history, the court observed, was pervaded by political corruption underwritten by out-of-state mining interests, prompting a 1912 voter initiative intended to limit "naked corporate manipulation" of state and local government, Montana Chief Justice Mike McGrath wrote. A century later, Montana remains "especially vulnerable to continued efforts of corporate control to the detriment of democracy and the republican form of government," he wrote.

American Tradition Partnership and two corporate co-plaintiffs asked the U.S. Supreme Court to summarily reverse the Montana court, arguing that the state justices had flouted Citizens United and that their ruling threatened "irreparable harm to the Corporations' First Amendment free-speech right."

In other words, a hundred years' worth of reform didn't really work after all. So much for "Reform."