Campaign finance spending will exceed $6 billion this year, and one man deserves a fair amount of the credit — election lawyer James Bopp, architect of the infamous Citizens United Supreme Court case and ideological crusader against state-based campaign finance laws that limit corporate expenditure, as The Texas Independent recently reported.
Montana’s ban on corporate political spending may be harder to preserve than supporters originally thought, but the secret organizations behind the effort to disband the law are taking heat in Montana Supreme Court, according to the Associated Press.
The so-called “Personhood” movement, though once labeled extreme by even conservative groups in Florida, is gaining traction across the country. In Mississippi, the group’s efforts have paid off — a “Personhood” amendment, which seeks to ban abortion (and could ban some forms of birth control) will be on More…
The Center for Responsive Politics revealed Thursday that corporate campaign spending has skyrocketed since the Supreme Court’s Citizens United v. the Federal Election Commission decision in January 2010. The report comes at the same time as the first major state-level challenge to the controversial ruling.
Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer has announced he will allow SB 423 to become law without his signature. Schweitzer earlier vetoed a bill that would have banned medical marijuana outright.
SB 423 does not outlaw medical marijuana, but medical marijuana advocates says it might as well. The law would require all More…
A detention facility in Montana must now administer all medical treatments to incarcerated pregnant women, including opiate-withdrawal medication, following a settlement reached this week by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Lake County Detention Center in Polson, Mont.
The settlement was reached in the case of Bethany Cajúne, More…
Federal agencies have stepped up efforts to crack down on medical marijuana, and while high-profile ATF raids may be more immediately shocking, there is a less direct tactic being used that could spell the death of medical marijuana across the country, according to its opponents.
Though Personhood USA has a reach into every state –- and has collected almost 1 million signatures supporting personhood legislation throughout the country — the umbrella organization and its affiliates are currently throwing the most effort at Mississippi, North Dakota, Iowa, Montana and Nebraska.
On Valentine’s Day, Personhood began More…
Montana’s House of Representatives Wednesday approved a bill that would overrule a Missoula city ordinance prohibiting employment and housing discrimination on the basis of sexuality and gender. The bill would prohibit any locality from protecting any group from discrimination not already protected under Montana law.
Last week, the North Carolina Independent News reported on the state’s Racial Justice Act — which allows death row inmates to appeal their sentences if they can demonstrate racial bias in their original trials — being upheld in court. The case comes at a time when the utility of More…
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