citizens united ruling and its coalition with this with this decision in montana i'm joined by ian mille eiser attorney policy analyst and a blogger over the center for the center for american progress as think progress was welcome it's good to see and hear thanks so much what are the options that jeff was just pointing out that you know one of the things that makes this nine hundred twelve law in montana unique it says that corporations can't give money to politicians is it was passed by a citizen referendum right and the in citizens united the the supreme court or five of the guys in the supreme court basically said there's no history of corruption of politicians and in montana there's a huge history of it and the montana supreme court said so what do you how can the supreme court deal with this dissonance i mean this is a very difficult case for me as a lawyer because on the one hand what the montana supreme court did here was wrong there a lower court lower courts have to file follow sapir your courts and so they had to follow citizens united whether they like it or not and they didn't and