Some six months after the Montana Supreme Court upheld a 100-year-old state law limiting independent expenditures by corporations on behalf of political candidates or committees, a federal judge has barred enforcement of related state campaign restrictions.
Meanwhile, in North Carolina, a federal judge, citing a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision, ruled that a state law linking public campaign matching funds in judicial elections to spending by opposing candidates violates the First Amendment.
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