Montana Supreme Court = My Heroes!

I just learned that the Montana Supreme Court defied the US Supreme Court’s decision in the awful “Citizens United” case!  You can read about it here.  The decision was 5 to 2.  However, one of the dissenting justices went out of his way to blister SCOTUS for its horrible decision:

"While, as a member of this Court, I am bound to follow Citizens United, I do not have to agree with the [U.S.] Supreme Court's decision," Nelson wrote. "And, to be absolutely clear, I do not agree with it. For starters, the notion that corporations are disadvantaged in the political realm is unbelievable. Indeed, it has astounded most Americans. The truth is that corporations wield enormous power in Congress and in state legislatures. It is hard to tell where government ends and corporate America begins: the transition is seamless and overlapping."

And over at Firedog Lake, David Dayen offers thoughts on the ramification of the Montana decision.   The upshot is that he does not think SCOTUS would change its mind, but he does not rule out the possibility of justice Kennedy changing his position if the Montana decision were before him.  He notes also that:

At the very least, a favorable ruling here would allow states to ban corporate contributions or limit them in state and local elections.

It all brings back that delicious moment in the President’s State of the Union speech a couple of years ago when he called out the majority justices on the Citizens United case right to their faces, strongly criticizing their decision, prompting that little weasel Alito to shake his head and mumble some sort of objection. 

Anyway, I love the Montana Supreme Court these days.