Can corporations use freedom of religion to challenge government statute? An article in the journal of the American Bar Association analyzes the issues. *** Corporations, like individuals, have the right to engage in political speech, the U.S. Supreme Court said…
Noam Chomsky is a lightning rod for right wing criticism, which means this website risks permanent guilt-by-association by embedding an eight minute video of nothing but Noam Chomsky speaking. But a funny thing happened on the way to the forum.…
Mr. A. Barton Hinkle has a history of making stuff up so it should come as no surprise that his op-ed denigrating the movement to overturn Citizens United and related case law is entirely premised on fact-free conjecture and fear-mongering…
David P. Crocker has a fistful of credentials from the U.K. and the U.S., including a JD from the University of Maine. He was a clerk on the Maine Supreme Court and claims to have a good deal of experience…
In yet another victory on a ballot initiative, the voters of Los Angeles approved a resolution, Proposition C, to call for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Citizens United decision. The resolution passed with 76.6% support from L.A. voters. The…
One of the most common objections against the idea of abolishing corporate constitutional rights, which would empower Congress to bar for-profit corporations from engaging in “electioneering communications,” is that media corporations such as Fox, MSNBC, USA Today, et al, have…
“Supreme Court opinion notwithstanding, corporations are not defined as people under the Constitution, and free speech can hardly be called free when only the rich are heard.” — Warren Rudman, late former U.S. Senator (R) from New Hampshire (1980-1993) In…
From Democracy Now! a debate on the merits of the amendment movement itself between John Bonifaz, co-founder and director of Free Speech for People, and Mark Schmitt, senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute and former editor of The American Prospect.…