Sotomayor: Overturn Corporate Personhood
It appears that Sonia Sotomayor will be an activist judge after all.
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.”
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In 1886 there was a court case that went to the Supreme Court between the Santa Clara County(California) v. Southern Pacific Railroad. I think they wanted tax the railroad. The only way they could find to do it is if they gave the "corporation" the same rights and duties of human beings, this ruling somehow found it's way into the 14th Amendment thereby affirming the first non human "entity" called a corporation was really a human being = personhood. Corporations were formed like bunny rabbits.
This is the ruling that the recent Supreme Court "gang of five" used as an excuse to give corporations the ability to fund, carte blanche, our elections, which, by the way was not even a part of the original case, the gang of 5 "reached out" and added this to the case, which is UNCONSTITUTIONAL it is NOT in their job description. So, basically we're back to the days when one person, one vote is history and why Obama mentioned it in his State of the Union, when he looked directly at that bastard Scolia. I'm not making this stuff up.
Alan Grayson, from Orlando is one of the Reps trying to help repeal the original 1886 ruling. As are some other progressives on the hill. This could conceivably be a GOOD THING... it has brought attention to this loophole in the constitution. I sent him $10 even though I'm not in his district.
Watch Obama live on YouTube tomorrow, taking questions from the public, I'm hoping he'll answer this (do you agree with Sotomayor?) as several including myself asked him directly to comment and those questions got a lot of votes.