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To: i-node who wrote (655285)	5/19/2012 12:32:53 PM
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McCain and Whitehouse take on Citizens United Comments (110) By SEUNG MIN KIM \| 5/18/12 2:14 PM EDT politico.com Sens. John McCain and Sheldon Whitehouse are teaming up to take on Citizens United. The bipartisan duo filed a friend-of-the-court brief Friday in a Montana Supreme Court case that upheld the state’s ban on independent expenditures by corporations. That case, American Tradition Partnership vs. Bullock, is now pending before the U.S. Supreme Court, which issued a stay of the decision in February. In the 31-page brief, McCain (R-Ariz.) and Whitehouse (D-R.I.) defends Montana’s ban and calls on the Supreme Court to review Citizens United’s finding that vast independent expenditures don’t have a corrupting influence in campaigns. “Evidence from the 2010 and 2012 electoral cycles has demonstrated that so-called independent expenditures create a strong potential for corruption and the perception thereof,” their brief reads. “The news confirms, daily, that existing campaign finance rules purporting to provide for ‘independence’ and ‘disclosure’ in fact provide neither.” McCain and Whitehouse said in a joint statement that they were “deeply concerned” about the rise of unlimited and undisclosed spending in elections. “This unregulated and unaccountable spending invites corruption into our political process, and undermines our democracy,” the senators said. “We urge the Supreme Court to make clear that legislatures can take appropriate actions against corrupting influences in campaigns.” Opponents of the Montana Supreme Court’s decision say it runs directly against Citizens United.

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