Citizens United Reaction: Amend that First Amendment!
Public Citizen, on the losing end of today's momentous Citizens United decision, are upset and wanna do something about it. Amend the Constitution! From their press release of woe:
Public Citizen will aggressively work in support of a constitutional amendment specifying that for-profit corporations are not entitled to First Amendment protections, except for freedom of the press. We do not lightly call for a constitutional amendment. But today's decision so imperils our democratic well-being, and so severely distorts the rightful purpose of the First Amendment, that a constitutional corrective is demanded.
We are formulating language for possible amendments, asking members of the public to sign a petition to affirm their support for the idea of constitutional change, and planning to convene leading thinkers in the areas of constitutional law and corporate accountability to begin a series of in-depth conversations about winning a constitutional amendment.
How campaign finance law essentially can make trying to jab at the powerful through the political process a life-wrecking bit of bravado.
