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No, I didn't write this press release (but I did add emphasis!). I note my related posts are here . DATE: January 21, 2009 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jeff Milchen, American Independent Business Alliance 406-582-1255 INDEPENDENT BUSINESS ADVOCATES AND PUBLIC INTEREST GROUPS CONDEMN SUPREME COURT'S...
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I reported two weeks ago that a PR firm, Murray Hill, Inc. , had embraced the recent decision by the conservative, non-activist majority of the Supreme Court which resoundingly affirmed that the Founding Fathers had granted First Amendment rights to corporate "persons" by embarking on a campaign...
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[Here's the title I preferred but was apparently too long. Dang. "WSJ reveals itself as another stupid MSM #CorpSpeak organ, uninterested in Constitutional or representative government, and perversely, as an ally with Dems in engendering a oppressive, arbitrary, corrupt & broken federal...
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Lessig doesn' expressly say it, but we also need to rein in the "self-evident", "unalienable rights" of all corporations Actually, the last quip in the title are my words, not Lessig's. Last week, I noted Harvard law prof Lawrence Lessig's earlier rebuttal to Glenn Greenwald...
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Filed under: rent-seeking, corporations, religion, constitution, Lessig, limited liability, states, speech, federalism, equal protection
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Below is another handy summary of my Constitutional arguments against #CorpSpeak and #politicsInc (Twiter hashtags, for those of you who may be unfamiliar with them), copied from another comment thread at Volokh Conspiracy . Readers should not forget that it is the state grant of limited liability that...
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PR.Watch.org succinctly summarizes: Now that the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are entitled to the same free speech and political rights as American citizens, Murray Hill, Inc. , a public relations and advertising firm in Maryland has announced that it intends to run for Congress in Maryland's...
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Further to my preceding posts on corporations and free speech , I invite others to read this semi-serious piece in Truthout that examines the implications of the United Citizens vs. FEC decision: " Personal Corporatehood: Coping With the Reason Divided of Citizens United " The author, Randall...
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Further to my preceding post on speech and corporations , I highly recommend Lawrence Lessig `s insightful short piece, " The Principled and Pure Court? A Reply to Glenn Greenwald " (HuffPo, January 27). For those who haven`t seen it yet, I take the liberty of quoting liberally (emphasis added...
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Further, virtually everyone has been ignoring (2) WHY it is that there is so much concern about corporations and their influence on (and vulnerability to) government: namely , states have allowed individuals (and now other corporations) to form separate, limited-liability legal entities that cut off...