Sotomayer challenges decisions that gave corporations "person" status

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

Begin forwarded message:

> 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!)  --jim
>
>
> Sotomayor 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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