Corporate Personhood

Corporate Personhood: How Far Does the Rabbit Hole Go?

Richard C. Leone | Posted 05.31.2012

Read More: Super Pac, Corporations, 2012 Election, Free Speech, Campaign Spending, Elections 2012, Corporate Personhood, Citizens United, Politics News

Will corporations get all the rights that personhood implies? It's hard to say; only one thing is certain, they won't have any trouble raising the money for campaigns to approve the corporate equality agenda, whatever it turns out to be.

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Rescuing 'We, the People'

Rep. Jim McGovern | Posted 05.24.2012

Read More: Corporate Personhood, George Will, George Will Citizens United, People's Right Amendment, Citizens United Ruling, Citizens United, Infanticide, Citizens United Amendment, Politics News

Defenders of Citizens United and the corporate rights doctrine that underlies it must be getting nervous. Why else would George Will resort to arguing that the amendment I have introduced is "comparable" to condoning infanticide?

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Montana Attorney General Race Rocked By Out-Of-State Corporate Donations In Wake Of Citizens United

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Altria, Montana Attorney General Race, Tim Fox, Video, Montana Corrupt Practices Act, PhRMA Lobby, Corporate Personhood, Citizens United, Slidepollajax, Jim Shockley, Politics News

The Copper Kings once lorded over Montana, picking the state's governors and senators. The grip of the Anaconda Copper Mining Company was so tight tha...

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'We ... have a monopoly on bribery in this country'

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Montana, Video, Corporations, Western Tradition Partnership, Brian Schweitzer, Corporate Personhood, Steve Bullock, Citizens United, Campaign Finance, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The state of Montana is ready to embrace its role as the primary opponent of the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal ...

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The Dumbest Show on Fox News Channel Ever

Bob Cesca | Posted 04.25.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Eric Bolling, Free Speech, Corporate Personhood, Dana Perino, U.S. Constitution, Citizens United, Greg Gutfeld, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Campaign Finance Reform, Bob Beckel, Corporations, Nancy Pelosi, The Five, Constitutional Amendment, Fox News Channel, Media News

If Fox News was trying to create a show that would amplify the intellectual stature of the usually moronic Fox & Friends, they have totally succeeded with The Five.

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Obama to Wall Street: This Is How You Thank Me?

Harvey Rosenfield | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Credit Card Interest, Supeme Court, Corporate Personhood, Bailout, Citizens United, Barack Obama, Wall Street, Politics News

If corporations are people, as the Republican majority on the Supreme Court says, then the defining trait of the modern corporate personality is ingratitude.

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If Corporations Are Persons, Then They Should Be Better People on Tax Day

Jose Suarez | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Taxes, Foreclosure Crisis, Corporations, Wells Fargo, Exxon Mobil, Foreclosure, Carnival Cruise Lines, Citizens United, Corporate Personhood, Miami News

If Carnival were a person, there would be a word to describe its behavior: bratty. You know, the way none of us would want to see our kids act.

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Free to Speak, Free to Kill?

Brian Giacometti | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: Mitt Romney, Nigeria Shell Lawsuit, Corporate Personhood, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Citizens United, Shell Nigeria, Politics News

The personhood debate stems from legal rights enjoyed by corporations. Do they have standing in court? Can they donate to their favorite politician? Do they have freedom of speech? And joking aside, these are legitimate debates.

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Corporate Personhood Cuts Both Ways

HuffingtonPost.com | Paul Blumenthal | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Van Hollen v. Fec, Video, Citizens United v. FEC, Chris Van Hollen, Wisconsin Right to Life II, Supreme Court Campaign Finance, Corporate Personhood, Citizens United, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Campaign Finance, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Progressive activists angered by the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission allowing corporations...

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OWS: Romney Is 'Mr. 1 Percent'

HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: George Martinez, New York State Leadership Council, Job Cremator, Romney Fundraiser, Occupy Wall Street Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney, Corporate Personhood, Barack Obama, Occupy Movement, Romney, Mitt Romney Waldorf Astoria, Romney Mr 1 Percent, Mitt Romney Occupy Wall Street, Nydia Velazquez, Todd Shapiro, Aaron Black, Mitt Romney Fundraiser, Mr 1 Percent, Waldorf Astoria, DREAM Act, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Job Cremation, Justin Wedes, Occupy Ny, New York News

NEW YORK -- On Wednesday afternoon, about one hundred Occupy protesters gathered outside the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in midtown Manhattan, where former ...

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The Case for Non-Human Personhood Rights

Eric Michael Johnson | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: 14th Amendment, Killer Whales, Dolphins, Animal Rights, Primates, Cetaceans, Personhood, Corporate Personhood, Chimpanzees, Whales, Great Apes, 1st Amendment, Science News

This is not as radical an idea as it may sound. The law is fully capable of making and unmaking "persons" in the strictly legal sense. But that would be unlikely to happen with whales, dolphins, or even great apes.

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It's Not Just Citizens United

Alan B. Morrison | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Citizens United, Money in Politics, Campaign Finance Reform, Campaign Finance, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, Supreme Court, Buckley v. Valeo, US Supreme Court, Constitutional Amendment, Corporate Personhood, Citizens United Constitutional Amendment, Politics News

For those who think that our election system is fundamentally on the wrong track, the only option is to amend the Constitution to allow Congress and the States to do what is necessary to restore some level of sanity to campaign finance rules.

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Supreme Court Expands Corporate Human Rights Case, Avoids Corporate Liability Question

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Alien Tort Statute, Video, Human Rights, 2nd-Circuit, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Corporations, Reargument, Nigeria, US-Extraterritoriality, International Law, Corporate Personhood, Citizens United, Shell Oil, Politics News

The Supreme Court on Monday afternoon took the unusual action of ordering reargument in the case heard last week that has been brought against a multi...

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Vermont Takes The Lead In Corporate Personhood Fight

AP | By WILSON RING | Posted 03.05.2012

Read More: Corporate Personhood Vermont, Video, Corporations People, Super PACs, Peter Welch, Vermont Corporate Personhood, Vermont, Vermont Town Meeting, Corporate Personhood, Bernie Sanders, Citizens United, Politics News

MONTPELIER, Vt. -- A senator with socialist leanings was among the first. Then there was Jerry of Ben & Jerry's ice cream fame. Stephen Colbert has tw...

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#SuperPACTuesday

Rep. Ted Deutch | Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Ted Deutch, Restore Our Future, Money, Money in Politics, Super Pac, Super PACs, OCCUPIED Amendment, Campaign Finance Reform, Mitt Romney, Super Tuesday, Corporate Personhood, Occupy Wall Street, Campaign Finance, Twitter, Newt Gingrich, Politics News

The factors that would typically lead to a campaign's demise -- the absence of popular support, too few donors -- have become irrelevant in an era where a few billionaires can resurrect campaigns from the dead through Super PACs.

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Supreme Court: Are Corporations Liable for Aiding and Abetting Crimes Against Humanity?

Valerie Brender | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Alien Tort Statute, Corporate Personhood, Human Rights, Corporate Responsibility, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, World News

Whatever happens with the Kiobel decision, it will be a watershed moment for corporate accountability.

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Welcome to the Corporatocracy, Where Life Is Nasty, Brutish and Short

Thom Hartmann | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Alien Tort Statute, Corporate Personhood, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Corporations, Politics News

The Supreme Court is set to hear a case that could give corporations the power to commit genocide with no consequences. The High Court has agreed to ...

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Fixing Our Broken Government: Ending Corporate Personhood

Rep. Earl Blumenauer | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Corporate Personhood, Citizens United, Super PACs, Earl Blumenauer, Campaign Finance, Video, Politics News

Mitt Romney may believe that corporations are people, but do the rest of us need a comedian like Stephen Colbert to remind us that only people are people?

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Corporate Crime and Punishment

Arvind Ganesan | Posted 04.29.2012

Read More: Nigeria, US Supreme Court, Alien Tort Statute, Human Rights, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Corporate Accountability, Human Rights Watch, Supreme Court, Corporate Personhood, Politics News

Should corporations have immunity for human rights abuses? Today, the Supreme Court hears arguments in a case that will decide whether corporations will be exempted from a crucial law that allows foreign victims of serious human rights abuses to sue them in US courts for civil damages.

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Supreme Court Looks Ready To Grant Corporate Immunity In Human Rights Case

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Alien Tort Statute, US Supreme Court, Video, 2nd-Circuit, Human Rights, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Corporations, Nigeria, International Law, Corporate Personhood, Citizens United, Shell Oil, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court on Tuesday morning appeared divided along party lines, with a conservative majority ready to hold that corporations ca...

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Kiobel v. Shell Tests Corporate Personhood

Katie Redford | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Corporate Personhood, Koibel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Citizens United, Human Rights, Corporate Responsibility, Corporations, Politics News

How anyone could argue that corporations shouldn't be held responsible for human rights abuses is almost beyond comprehension. Yet that's precisely what Shell and their supporters have been insisting and what they will argue to the Supreme Court today.

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Corporate Personhood Case Forces Justices To Hack New Path

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 02.28.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, US Supreme Court, Alien Tort Statute, Video, Human Rights, 2nd-Circuit, Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum, Corporations, Nigeria, International Law, Corporate Personhood, Citizens United, Shell Oil, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday morning, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument on whether corporations, like real people, can be held liable in American ...

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Occupy, the Brand

Leah Hunt-Hendrix | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Movement Building, Foreclosure Crisis, Arab Spring, Economy, Protest, Occupy Wall Street, Branding, Marketing, Corporate Personhood, Citizens United, Occupy Movement, Impact News

We create brands not only for merchandise, but also for non-profits, campaigns, and even ourselves but we need to be wary of letting the lens of marketing color everything we see.

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Montana Supreme Court Collides With U.S. Supreme Court Over Citizens United

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 02.16.2012

Read More: Supreme Court, Montana, Justice Kennedy, First Amendment, Corporate Personhood, Jim Bopp, Citizens United, U.S. Supreme Court, Montana Supreme Court, Video, Western Tradition Partnership, Corporations, Anthony Kennedy, Constitution, Steve-Bullock, James Bopp Jr, American-Tradition-Partnership, Politics News

The fate of Montana's century-old ban on corporate political spending is now in the hands of the U.S. Supreme Court, setting up a possible sequel to t...

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Is The USA The Only Nation in the World With Corporate Personhood?

Rob Kall | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: US Constitution, Corporate Personhood, Constitution, Citizens United, Politics News

Mila Versteeg, associate law professor at the University of Virginia, is probably the only person in the world to have read every constitution that has been written since 1946 -- constitutions from 186 nations.

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