Today in Supreme Court History: March 24, 2009

3/24/2009: Citizens United v. FEC argued for the first time.

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[apedad]

"By a 5-to-4 vote along ideological lines, the majority held that under the First Amendment corporate funding of independent political broadcasts in candidate elections cannot be limited.

The majority maintained that political speech is indispensable to a democracy, which is no less true because the speech comes from a corporation." (Oyez)

I agree and was swayed by Prof. Volokh's statement (and others I'm sure), that a corporation is merely a group of individuals, and should receive 1A protection like an individual would.

[F.D. Wolf]

Democrats used to passionately and incessantly denounce this decision and demand it be overturned. Remember Obama and Alito at the 2010 State of the Union?

You don't hear those complaints anymore, because in the Era of Woke Capitalism, Democrats have realized they are overwhelmingly the beneficiaries of the decision.