Supreme Court Asked To Double Down On Citizens United<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLate last year, the Montana Supreme Court refused to follow the Supreme Court\u2019s erroneous Citizens United decision and upheld that state\u2019s longstanding ban on corporate money in politics. Although we …\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Apparently, as the Montana Supreme Court has kicked back, saying that the state's history provides compelling reasons for its corporate donations restrictions, and corporations in the state are appealing to SCOTUS. I doubt seriously that SCOTUS will change their minds so quickly — though they could provide some added nuance to the ruling, which has … Continue reading “Another pass at Citizens United?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,35,9],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-big-business","category-politics-law","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":26171,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/08\/will-scotus-take-up-the-prop-8-case.html","url_meta":{"origin":26391,"position":0},"title":"Will SCOTUS take up the Prop 8 case?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 8-Feb-12 8:17am","format":false,"excerpt":"Interestingly enough, by the panel ruling in such a narrow way (and focused solely on the case of California), the Supreme Court might well decline to accept any appeal that's made. #ddtbReshared post from +Talking Points MemoWhy Prop 8 might not go to the Supreme Court: Embedded Link Proposition 8:\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":23929,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/21\/prop-8-and-the-eventual-scotus-ruling.html","url_meta":{"origin":26391,"position":1},"title":"Prop 8 and the eventual SCOTUS ruling","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 21-Nov-11 11:11am","format":false,"excerpt":"Everyone pretty much figures that the Nine Circuit will uphold the strike-down of Prop 8 in California, even with the proposition's supports granted standing by the California Supreme Court; the Ninth Circuit might not go along with that standing (Federal rules are more strict), but either way, it go to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27307,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/02\/why-were-predictions-about-the-scotus-hearing-of-the-ppaca-so-wrong.html","url_meta":{"origin":26391,"position":2},"title":"Why were predictions about the SCOTUS hearing of the PPACA so wrong?","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 2-Apr-12 9:30pm","format":false,"excerpt":"With the proviso that we don't yet actually know how they will vote, Steve Benan notes:\"When analysts expected a 7-2 or 8-1 ruling in support of the administration, they weren't just picking numbers out of thin air; this was a reasonable estimate based on everything we know about the court,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27112,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/03\/15\/scotus-and-political-decisions.html","url_meta":{"origin":26391,"position":3},"title":"SCOTUS and "Political" Decisions","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 15-Mar-12 2:32pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It's probably unreasonable to expect any Supreme Court Justice to rule with Vulcan-like precision merely on the legal merits of a given case -- if for no other reason than that they are (a) human, and (b) cases that get to (and are accepted by) SCOTUS are rarely so clear\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":27319,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/04\/03\/oh-and-by-the-way-about-that-strip-search-ruling-by-scotus.html","url_meta":{"origin":26391,"position":4},"title":"Oh, and by the way, about that Strip Search ruling by SCOTUS?","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 3-Apr-12 6:03pm","format":false,"excerpt":"It was argued for by the Obama Dept. of Justice.Yes, given a binary choice between Obama and [any GOP candidate running], he's the one I'm going to vote for, because in some ways he's better, and in other ways less worse than the Republican field. 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