Corporate Speech

America Tells the Securities Exchange Commission to Mandate Disclosure of Corporate Political Activity

Jack Ucciferri | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Corporate Speech, Sec, Corporate Power, Citizens United, Political Spending, Politics News
Jack Ucciferri

Our republic is being challenged by a powerful array of superhuman forces deeply embedded in the fabric of our culture -- large corporations. But today we got a piece of good news.

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A Call for a Convention

Lawrence Lessig | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Money and Politics, Corruption, Corporate Speech, Fair Elections Now Act, Constitutional Amendment, Lobbyists, Fair Elections, Constitutional Convention, Citizens United, Lawrence Lessig, Politics News
Lawrence Lessig

The problem in our democracy is not diversity; the problem is a Congress dependent upon the fundraisers. The problem is not corporate speech. The problem is the fundraising Congress.

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Back to the Gilded Age!

Warren Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Progressive Taxation, Supreme Court, 14th Amendment, Mass Movement, Free Speech, Antonin Scalia, Corporate Power, John Roberts, New Gilded Age, Clean Air Act, Corporate Speech, Minimum Wage, Banks, Gilded Age, Samuel Alito, Supreme Court Bush vs. Gore, Corporate Greed, Politics News
Warren Goldstein

A little over nine years ago (December 12, 2000) the conservative majority on the Supreme Court intervened in the disputed presidential election betwe...

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Supreme Court to Hand Government to Republicans, Again: This Time, Forever.

Paul Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Elections, First Amendment, Legal Person, Corporate Speech, Unnatural Persons, Natural Person, Republicans, Politics News
Paul Abrams

Because of the legal nicety of the corporation, established solely to promote commerce, we are now going to be treated to the permanent takeover of the US government by these humanly-created legal fictions.

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Tightening the Corporate Grip: The Stakes at the Supreme Court

Robert Weissman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Money and Politics, Supreme Court, Corporate Speech, Elections, Mccain-Feingold, Corporations, Campaign Finance, Politics News
Robert Weissman

Overturning the court's precedents on corporate election expenditures would be nothing short of a disaster.

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