Senator hosts hearings on Supreme Court campaign finance ruling
from the Fairbanks News-Miner: A state Senate judiciary leader will schedule committee hearings next month to investigate the ramifications to Alaska of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on corporate campaign contributions.
The ruling Thursday generally expanded the potential role of corporations in political campaigns. Sen. Hollis French, D-Anchorage and an attorney who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, called it a “horribly misguided” ruling that creates unease at the “power we’re ceding to corporations, foreign and domestic, into Alaska’s public affairs.”
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