Follow-up on Wednesdays Big Events
As I mentioned yesterday, Barack Obama’s rebranding of his health care snake oil wasn’t the only important event of the day. (I may or may not get around to writing about that. It strikes me that lots of other people are doing a fine job with it. I recommend THIS article and THIS article for those of you who need an antidote to the dominant liberal media’s fawning coverage.)
As for me, I spent a lot of time yesterday writing about and reading the transcript of the very important Supreme Court oral arguments in the case of Citizens United v FEC. It’s one of the most important political free speech cases in years and there seems to be a slim majority on the Court ready to take some action.
Please read my thoughts about the case and yesterday’s hearing at:
“Supreme Court Revisits “Hillary the Movie“, Ross Kaminsky, HumanEvents.com, 9/10/09
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=33483
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09/13/09 @ 10:22:32 am
Ross,
My understanding of the ruling in Citizens United v FEC is that corporations are not citizens and therefore are not afforded the same privileges of free speech under the Constitution. Why do you feel this argument is mistaken?
09/13/09 @ 08:00:16 pm
Madpinto:
I'm not Ross; however, corporations get their person-hood status from the 14th Amendment when in the early 1900s the courts started playing with that amendment. "Government By Judiciary" is a good book to read on this subject.
Steve
09/13/09 @ 08:09:49 pm
I agree with Steven. And if you listened to the testimony, a Justice or two tried to get to that question. The Citizens United attorneys argued that corporations are aggregations of citizens, which caused the pro-regulation Justices to grasp for straws such as "what if the corporations are substantially owned by foreigners?" All around, the government's case was unusually and exceptionally weak.
The fact that the Deputy Solicitor General said in March that the current regulations could be used to ban a book was probably the death knell for this part of McCain-Feingold.
I hope it's just the first crack in the dam.