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Originally Posted by Danzig
our rights have always had people who have abused them. but to say corporations have no rights to speak their mind is an incorrect assumption. the constitution is there for everyone, not just those with a popular point of view.
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I'll take some counterpoint to the above comments.
First - the Supreme Court just abused the rights of voters everywhere, by placing non-voting corporate entities in a position greater than us - individual voters - to influence elections.
Secondly - Corporations are not "people", or "voters". They do not go in a voting booth. They are corporate entities, that can be wholly foreign-owned.
Third - corporations have always had a voice in elections, they just have had to do it through political action committees (PACS) that were open to scrutiny, and had financial limitations and transparency.
That was just eliminated.
This hasn't been addressed in the news (as the vote coming up), because nobody, NOBODY, though the Supreme Court would rule in this manner. It's completely in opposition to the way every previous Supreme Court has viewed and voted upon these issues. It is indeed "judicial activism", to overturn 100 years of Supreme Court decisions.