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Sotomayer challenges decisions that gave corporations "person" status
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 15:53:26 -0400
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From: Jim Warren <jwarren () well com> Date: October 5, 2009 15:08:43 EDT To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>Subject: Sotomayer challenges decisions that gave corporations "person" status
FINALLY! A challenge to the single most outrageous example of "judicial activism," that has been the most destructive to government of, by and for We, the People! (This needs widespread support and applause! Pass it on!) --jimSotomayor Issues Challenge to a Century of Corporate Law http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125314088285517643.html (or http://bit.ly/1cAuw2 )WASHINGTON -- In her maiden Supreme Court appearance last week, Justice Sonia Sotomayor made a provocative comment that probed the foundations of corporate law.During arguments in a campaign-finance case, the court's majority conservatives seemed persuaded that corporations have broad First Amendment rights and that recent precedents upholding limits on corporate political spending should be overruled.But Justice Sotomayor suggested the majority might have it all wrong -- and that instead the court should reconsider the 19th century rulings that first afforded corporations the same rights flesh-and- blood people have.Judges "created corporations as persons, gave birth to corporations as persons," she said. "There could be an argument made that that was the court's error to start with...[imbuing] a creature of state law with human characteristics."... <BIG snip> ... === For a good summary of the issue of "corporate personhood", see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood_debate Better still, read Thom Hartmann's book, UNEQUAL PROTECTION.
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