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Thomas Jefferson Rolls Over In His Grave

   Free speech rights…for corporations:

Montana voters, fed up with the grip of out-of-state mining interests on local politicians, passed an initiative in 1912 banning corporate spending on candidates for state office. As soon as Tuesday, that law — and similar ones in nearly half the states — could be struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court for infringing corporations’ free-speech rights.

 

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