US Supreme Court: The Citizens United decision stays

     The U.S. Supreme Court today, by a 5-4 vote, struck down Montana’s 100-year-old ban on corporate election spending — without even allowing full briefing or argument in the case. The decision reverses a Montana Supreme Court decision, which upheld the law due to the state’s dramatic history of corruption.

     In May, the Brennan Center submitted a friend-of-the-court brief urging the Court to uphold the law, and use the case to revisit the disastrous Citizens United ruling, which opened the door to unlimited spending in American elections. The brief, submitted on behalf of the Center and nine constitutional law professors in American Tradition Partnership v. Bullock, argued that Citizens United is untenable in light of the dominant role now being played in U.S. elections by super PACs and other outside groups.

     This is, of course, a great loss to the struggle for democracy in America.  Dozens of nationally-based, full-time non-governmental organizations have been continuously on the front lines fighting for 'one person, one vote,' and all that it entails.  Join me in thanking these nonprofits for their self-less hard work in many ways for campaign finance reform, in the Capitol, the internet and elsewhere over these many years.

UPDATE:  There is still hope: we are now working for a constitutional amendment to overturn the court ruling and reclaim our democracy!  Join now!

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