A Government of the Wealthy, By the Wealthy & For the Wealthy

Via The Huffington Post ~

The Montana case could give the Supreme Court “an opportunity to consider whether, in light of the huge sums currently deployed to buy candidates’ allegiance, Citizens United should continue to hold sway,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a dissenter in Citizens United, said in granting a February stay of the Montana Supreme Court’s decision upholding the state’s century-old law.

Instead, the opposite happened: The high court did not revisit Citizens United. And campaign finance experts said the court’s new decision makes it clear that states must follow it.

“Unless there is a change in the composition of the U.S. Supreme Court, the Citizens United decision is alive and well, and the states are obligated to follow it,” said Robert Kelner, an election law expert at the law firm Covington & Burling.

It’s a legal paradigm that Michael Toner, a Washington election lawyer at Wiley Rein, said will endure beyond November.

“It’s clear that the Citizens United decision remains the law of the land at the federal level and in all 50 states,” Toner said, “and that Citizens United will remain the law of the land through the presidential election.”

The next president will likely replace a few Supreme Court justices.  Cast your vote wisely.