Citizens Divided? Yup.
The Corporate-kind from the Human-kind, that is.
Think Corporations have No Rights? -- Think again ...
Justices, 5-4, Reject Corporate Spending Limit
by Adam Liptak, nytimes.com -- Jan 21, 2010
President Obama called it “a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices of everyday Americans.”
[...]“If the First Amendment has any force,” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wrote for the majority, which included the four members of the court’s conservative wing, “it prohibits Congress from fining or jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech.”
The ruling, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, No. 08-205, overruled two precedents: Austin v. Michigan Chamber of Commerce, a 1990 decision that upheld restrictions on corporate spending to support or oppose political candidates, and McConnell v. Federal Election Commission, a 2003 decision that upheld the part of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 that restricted campaign spending by corporations and unions.
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"it prohibits Congress from finingor jailing citizens, or associations of citizens, for simply engaging in political speech."
I guess that means Corporations are "Citizens" too?
-- Finally! What took them so long?
... I wonder how many Votes, they get? ... Or will get, someday?