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State’s high court to weigh in on campaign finance limits in wake of federal ruling
Tim Hoover
Gov. Bill Ritter’s office had asked the state’s high court to take up the issue after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month that federal campaign contribution laws barring spending by corporations on the election of individuals candidates was unconstitutional.
Republicans in Colorado had threatened to sue to overturn Colorado’s limits, but Ritter, a Democrat, said he would ask the state’s high court to weigh in on the matter.
Trey Rogers, Ritter’s chief legal counsel, said briefs will be filed in the case before the end of March.
“We would hope the court would resolve the issue pretty quickly after all of the briefing is in,” Rogers said.
Feb. 11, 2009