Monday, January 25, 2010

CUvFEC

This one, from Reason Blog

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reason/HitandRun/~3/b-UQAaL8C2U/antonin-scalia-vs-john-paul-st

one thing that jumped right out while reading the dissent (it's also a concurrence, in parts) written by Justice John Paul Stevens and joined by Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, and Sonia Sotomayor, is Stevens' angry tone. He calls the idea that the First Amendment forbids distinctions between individuals and individuals organized as a corporation "a glittering generality" with no foundation in the law, and later declares, "Under the majority's view, I suppose it may be a First Amendment problem that corporations are not permitted to vote, given that voting is, among other things, a form of speech." Well!

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