Richard Winger’s Ballot Access News has more information on a Montana lawsuit filed in light of Citizens United and a link to the complaint. Attached to the complaint is this Montana Commissioner of Political Practices press release.
Former Oklahoma lawmakers would have to wait two years before becoming lobbyists if recently considered legislation becomes law. KFSM reports.
Months later people are still talking about the President’s State of the Union discussion of Citizens United. Justice Roberts referenced the controversy recently, as this report reflects.
Responding to a University of Alabama law student’s question, Roberts said anyone was free to criticize the court, and some have an obligation to do so because of their positions.
“So I have no problems with that,” he said. “On the other hand, there is the issue of the setting, the circumstances and the decorum.
“The image of having the members of one branch of government standing up, literally surrounding the Supreme Court, cheering and hollering while the court – according the requirements of protocol – has to sit there expressionless, I think is very troubling.”
Yesterday an opinion in Utility Workers of America Local 369 v. Federal Election Commission was announced and it’s available here. The case was remanded to the Federal Election Commission.
Here’s a story from Montana about a lawsuit seeking to overturn a state law in light of Citizens United.
A Bozeman company is suing two state offices over a law dating back to 1912 that bans corporate spending in elections.
The Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises of the House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing on Thursday, March 11, 2010 at 10 a.m. (Rayburn 2128): “Corporate Governance after Citizens United.”
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Wednesday, “We the People? Corporate Spending in American Elections after Citizens United.” (Dirksen 226 at 10 a.m.) Bradley A. Smith is scheduled to appear, but because Senator McCain isn’t on the committee we can’t expect a repetition of past unpleasantry between the two to mar the occasion.
AP has a report on a recent meeting of the North Carolina State Board of Elections.
State Board of Elections Chairman Larry Leake didn’t want to hear about a new U.S. Supreme Court ruling that opens the doors to more direct corporate and union involvement in political campaigns while he weighed evidence whether the North Carolina Association of Realtors broke the law in 2008.
“I am at this moment in time more interested in what North Carolina law says,” Leake told an attorney last week arguing over how the Realtors used mandatory member dues to fight tax increases on county land sales. “Help me understand that.”