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Corporations can continue to directly fund TV spots ads advocating for the election of federal candidates in the run-up to elections

By the same margin -- 5-4 -- the Supreme Court Monday put an exclamation point on its decision in the Citizens United case, ruling overturning a Montana law, and a Montana Supreme Court decision, that held that corporations could not "make... an expenditure in connection with a candidate or a political committee that supports or opposes a candidate or political party."

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Common Cause has submitted a ballot initiative in Montana that would prohibit corporate contributions to campaigns, clarify that corporations are not human beings with constitutional rights, and calls for a constitutional amendment nullifying Citizens United.

That is the Supreme Court decision that lifted a ban on corporate and union funding of campaign ads in federal elections as an infringement on speech.

Common Cause's move also follows another, more recent, Supreme Court decision staying enforcement of a Montana law banning corporate political spending.