Sen. Feingold was interviewed on WNYC radio in conjuction with the release of his book While America Sleeps: A Wake-up Call for the Post 9/11 Era, and as the co-author of McCain-Feingold, spoke about the subject of campaign financing and Citzens United.

The former senator said he was encouraged by signs that the Supreme Court could take up the issue of corporate contributions to campaigns by hearing the Montana case that directly challenged the Court's ruling in Citizens United.

Some background on the Montana case:



... late last year the Montana Supreme Court thumbed its nose at the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision. In Citizens United, Justice Anthony Kennedy, writing for a five-justice majority, held that the federal law barring corporations from spending their funds on election ads violated the corporations’ First Amendment rights. The Montana court nonetheless upheld a state ban on corporate campaign spending, finding that Montana’s history of corruption justified the ban.