French: Panel to ‘contain’ campaign court decision
from The Juneau Empire: Corporations won’t have to disclose their spending for or against candidates this election year unless lawmakers force them to, a Senate committee concluded Wednesday.
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Hollis French said he wants the panel to do just that, by putting forth a bill that would “contain” the effects of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that declared third-party corporate spending on such things as campaign ads as a form of protected free speech.
State attorneys testifying before the panel Wednesday said they believe the decision voids an existing state law that bans corporate spending on ads for a specific candidate.
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