Legal Backlash At State Level
The second legal front in the challenges to PAC spending was occurring largely at the state level, where states like Hawaii were attempting to defend the limitations they had imposed on giving to candidates. In February 2012 a federal court took under advisement final motions.
State spending limits are also under attack in Montana, where James Bopp Jr stepped in January 2012 to press at a federal level claims for a group fighting Montana's law that lost in Montana's Supreme Court. North Carolina Right to Life’s independent expenditures committees filed suit against the State of North Carolina in September 2011 claiming their spending limitations were unlawful with representation by James Bopp Jr. An October 2011 lawsuit challenged spending limitations in New Mexico.
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