Citizens United
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The Summer (and Autumn) of Dark Money
Foul-mouthed adman and blogger George Parker talked recently with fellow Brit Nicole Powers, in a conversation published on the Suicide Girls website, about the American Dream, the ad business, Super PACs, and what Parker calls the coming “shitstorm” of Citizen…
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The Founding Fathers and Corporations
I’m not generally concerned, when it comes to Constitutional matters, what the Framers intended or didn’t intend when they wrote the thing. Far as I’m concerned, they knew what they were doing when they used abstractions like “freedom”–they expected future…
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Confusing Metaphor with Reality
In her scathing piece for Slate about Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Dahlia Lithwick compares the Supreme Court’s actions to those of the Blue Fairy in Pinocchio, saying that they turned “a corporation into a real live boy.” Lithwick…
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Expression So Vile
The First Amendment case that’s getting most of the attention this year involves Citizens United and political speech by corporations, in large part because most court watchers believe that the Court’s conservative majority is going to overturn almost a century’s…