Supreme Court Eyes Decades of Campaign Finance Laws
The Supreme Court on Tuesday will hear arguments in a case that could reverse major gains made in recent decades to reduce the influence of corporate money on federal elections. At first blush, Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission appears to Full Story »
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Thom Hartmann provides the history of Supreme Court "personhood" for corporations; the judges did not decide such personhood in their decision on the original case. A clerk inserted personhood into the summary, inducing mistaken quotes of the decision as precedent.