KALAMAZOO, Mich. (NEWSCHANNEL 3) - With all the hoopla that came last week with the Supreme Court upholding the Affordable Care Act, another case got almost completely overshadowed and ignored.

In tonight's Tom's Corner, Tom Van Howe says that if anyone was thinking state's rights seem to be in trouble in these highly charged political times, what the Supreme Court did to Montana last week should have removed any doubt.
For most of us it was a ruling that pretty much went on by unnoticed.

But it wasn't lost on a Montana farmer and lawmaker. Guy named Jon Tester.

He says what the court did last week was a blow to democracy. And it wasn't lost either by Independent Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont who said the Supreme Court has left us a nation of the super rich, by the super rich and for the super rich.

To understand what happened we have to go back a 100 years to when Montana copper barons ruled the roost and were literally buying politicians to do their bidding.