22 January 2010

Paging George Soros

So Citizens United has come down, predictably eliminating caps on corporate donations to political campaigns by expanding the notion of "corporate personhood" to apply the same level of fundamental free speech rights to corporations as individuals enjoy (PDF). As Justice Stevens observed, why don't we just give corporations the fundamental right to vote, too (dissent, 33-34; 120-121 of the PDF file)?

The only way it'll go away now is if the Open Society Institute ends up swaying an election in a very big way.

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