Supreme Court of Colorado
In Re Interrogatories Propounded by Governor Bill Ritter, Jr., Concerning the Effect of Citizens United v. Federal…
March 22, 2010227 P.3d 892
Summary
The court answered both gubernatorial interrogatories in the affirmative. It concluded that the Colorado constitutional provisions are unconstitutional under the First Amendment to the extent they prohibit corporations or labor organizations from making express candidate-advocacy expenditures or funding electioneering communications. The court reached that conclusion because the federal constitutional rule governing those restrictions had changed.