You know what’s really fucked up? The concept of “corporate personhood” that Citizens United depends upon was invented wholesale by a goddamn clerk! The Supreme Court decision itself didn’t actually address the issue; the clerk just wrote a headnote “assuming” that the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment applied to corporations for ~reasons~.
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nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month agoWorse than that, they have free speech to corporations, and now that includes doing nearly anything involving communication or spending money.
grue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Shark_Ra_Thanos@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
On politics itself no less.
humancrayon@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’ll believe corporations are people the moment Texas executes ones.