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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Montana Supreme Court Shows Intellectual Honesty

The 2010 Citizens United ruling by the United States Supreme Court caused a major backlash among many members of the populace.  Why?  Well the ruling overturned decades of precedent that limited the amount of corporate spending in elections.  Now, it is legal for a corporation to spend an unlimited amount of money on their preferred candidate.  If there was any question whether our politicians are already bought and sold by rich special interests, there is no question now thanks to the Supreme Court's conservative majority.

But something funny has happened.  The Montana Supreme Court is not lying down and just accepting the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling.  They are not a monarchy that rules by decrees.  The Montana Supreme Court explicitly is rejecting the reasoning of the U.S. Supreme Court's conservatives that unlimited corporate spending does not cause, or at least make it appear as though, there is corruption.  It will be interesting if Western Tradition Partnership will appeal.


I applaud them for their intellectual courage.  If more intellectually honest Americans would stand up and fight back against the horrific attempt at logic these 5 conservatives on the court used to justify their decision, then America would become great once again.  Conservatives everywhere need to be called out on their inability to correctly assess evidence and make good decisions.

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