Election lawyers in Georgia say that despite warnings that last week’s landmark ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court will give corporations significantly more power in elections, including judicial contests, the case will have little impact here.

In his dissent to the decision, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that the majority decision “unleashes the floodgates of corporate and union general treasury spending” in judicial elections.

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