“The rule announced today — that Congress must treat corporations exactly like human speakers in the political realm — represents a radical change in the law,” he said from the bench. “The court’s decision is at war with the views of generations of Americans.”
“While American democracy is imperfect,” he wrote, “few outside the majority of this court would have thought its flaws included a dearth of corporate money in politics.”
Justice John Paul Stevens
via The New York Times
via The New York Times
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There's no way of knowing if this is spam...which it probably is. But I'm choosing to believe my mystery Asian commenter is pissed off at the Supreme Court. Right on!
The rule announced today — that Congress must treat corporations exactly like human speakers in the political realm — represents a realignment of the law with reality as it has existed since Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacific Railroad, 118 U.S. 394.
(-- Fixed it for ya.)
This is nothing new, other than the fact that our corporate overlords are finally coming out of the shadows.
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