{"id":1594,"date":"2010-01-31T19:28:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T03:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/31\/us-supreme-court-confuses-corporations-with-actual-people\/"},"modified":"2022-12-08T07:56:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T15:56:34","slug":"us-supreme-court-confuses-corporations-with-actual-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/1594\/us-supreme-court-confuses-corporations-with-actual-people\/","title":{"rendered":"US Supreme Court Confuses Corporations <br>with Actual People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/plugins\/supreme_court_us_2006.jpg\" alt=\"supreme_court_us_2006.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Matt Drake<\/strong>, <em>guest editorial<\/em><\/p>\n<p>January 31, 2010<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The United States Supreme Court recently decided <em><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20100304202754\/http:\/\/www.supremecourtus.gov\/opinions\/09pdf\/08-205.pdf\">Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission<\/a><\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 The Court&#8217;s opinion threw out restrictive regulations for corporate contributions of federal campaigns.\u00c2\u00a0 Some legal decisions are bad for complicated or technical reasons.\u00c2\u00a0 This is not one of those cases.\u00c2\u00a0 This one is bad for the most obvious of reasons: corporations are not people.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bipartisan_Campaign_Reform_Act\">McCain-Feingold Act<\/a> of 2002 placed some restrictions on what corporations could spend on political campaigns in the weeks before an election.\u00c2\u00a0 This case was about regulating a certain kind of speech, immediately before an election.\u00c2\u00a0 Under McCain-Feingold, corporate speech, in the form of donations to campaigns, was somewhat regulated.\u00c2\u00a0 Of course, corporations were hardly silenced.\u00c2\u00a0 Corporations were still free to form political action committees (PACs) to participate in the political process.\u00c2\u00a0 Anyone with a television knows they were very capable of doing so.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><!--more--> Unfortunately, the Supreme Court, in its 5-4 partisan decision, went well beyond what it had to do, reversed its earlier decisions, and ruled that corporations should be treated like people when donating to political campaigns.\u00c2\u00a0 The Court went on at great length about the risks of preventing corporations from speaking in political campaigns and how their inability to speak purported to damage our political process.\u00c2\u00a0 Because it believes that any regulation would be too complicated to enforce, the Court threw out all regulations on speech by corporations.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The problem with this whole argument is that no one&#8217;s right to free speech was impaired.\u00c2\u00a0 What is a corporation, anyway?\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s a piece of property owned by its shareholders.\u00c2\u00a0 And while corporations have some legal rights (owning property, bringing lawsuits, etc.), they are not people and do not have the rights that actual people have (getting a drivers license, voting, etc.).\u00c2\u00a0 Corporate personhood is not the same as actual personhood.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">No person&#8217;s First Amendment rights are harmed when a corporation&#8217;s speech is limited.\u00c2\u00a0 Even if corporations were completely silenced, their shareholders would be free to donate to whatever campaign they want.\u00c2\u00a0 A corporation is a group of people, but the First Amendment should protect the rights of those people, not the rights of the corporation.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The dissent understands, saying: &#8220;Like all other natural persons, every shareholder of every corporation remains entirely free under <em>Austin <\/em>and <em>McConnell <\/em>[earlier cases that were overturned by this decision]<em> <\/em>to do however much electioneering she pleases outside of the corporate form.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 Limiting the speech of a corporation does not limit the speech of people in any way.\u00c2\u00a0 Unfortunately, the Court was unwilling or unable to see the difference.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">What can be done?\u00c2\u00a0 There&#8217;s no easy answer.\u00c2\u00a0 There have been calls to amend the US Constitution, and some have called for a Constitutional Convention.\u00c2\u00a0 One thing that just might work is changing the composition of the Supreme Court.\u00c2\u00a0 The minority opinion, which I think was correct, had four votes.\u00c2\u00a0 If Obama is reelected in 2012, it&#8217;s possible that he could replace one of the five votes in favor of corporate spending with someone who understands that corporations are not people.\u00c2\u00a0 Granted that&#8217;s a long time to wait, but it may be our best option.<\/p>\n<p><em>Matt Drake is the General Counsel of FlyCast and is running for the Board of Supervisors for District 6 in November. 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