Sotomayor Issues Challenge to a Century of Corporate Law

Sotomayor Issues Challenge to a Century of Corporate Law

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As a conservative, I actually agree with this statement. The Republican party would say this is wrong that corporations should have the power of a person to influence government. Ironically, conservatives, in general, have managed to make the majority believe that individuals acting through the proxy of another individual, or in this case a corporation, have no liability for the actions of said proxy. As the proxy is an individual and action is taken against the individual proxy and not the person hiding behind the proxy.

What say you?

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As a conservative I also agree with this, the world must be upside down today or something.

Definatley not a Sotomayor fan, however I agree and applaud her stance on thiss. This should just go remind us that even the SCOTUS isn't exempt from the rampant cronyism, corruption and lobbyist shennanigans.

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Corporate personhood is legal mumbo jumbo and utter rubbish designed to offer the same constitutional protectons afforded actual living breathing human beings.

The Supreme Court decision often cited in cases involving corporate personhood Santa Clara v Southern Pacific Railroad was decided by a court reporter that happened to be a former President of a Railway Company.

The first words of the constitution are We the PEOPLE...

The current decision before the court would allow unlimited donations of money to political candidates protected as free speech.

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This is as important as campaign finance reform IMHO. Of course the corporations want to be able to completely control our political system with money seen as protected speech.

Let's throw out some names:
John Roberts, Samuel Alito

Elections have consequences.

I'm a conservative and I wholeheartedly agree with Justice Sotomayor on this! I hope she pursues it like a starving junk yard dog going after a bone!

Wow, I'm surprised so many conservatives agree with this. I thought I was the fringe person in my party on this issue.

umm... WOW. I bet if she'd have said such things during her confirmation hearings the Democrats would've been butt-walking out of their seats.
Here's to hoping she takes this farther, but always be weary of alterior motives for saying such things.

I agree 100%.. really there is no reason a corporation should be afforded human status.. of course, this ruling will impact the corporate world drastically.... I don't think a formal ruling will be made, but its interesting to see that she made that comment.

I consider myself extreme far right (that's what they tell me anyways) and I agree with her.. I think the notion Reps must support massive business is from Reaganism .. its a Neocon principle .. not a true Conservative principle.. mega Corporatism doesn't benefit anyone, I don't believe any party should support it.

As a liberal I too totally agree with this in fact I think it's one of the greatest sources of corruption in our times. It's nice to agree with the conservatives for a change too.

Well anybody that has eyes to see knows by now that actually giving the person hood to corporations was the biggest mistake against the people of the nation we know what private interest is doing in Washington, what campaign money and financing is doing to our for the people elected officials and against the tax payer.

While I like what Soto mayor is implying I doubt that something will be done to fix a darn thing, as private interest now runs our government.

Soda Mayor is disgusting.

She should go play in the street.

Obama will eventually have to be held responsible for all his mistakes.

Good to see some thoughtful discussions.

Isn't there a TOC that you cannot purposefully misrepresent someones name as to belittle it?

As a liberal I agree...

In the 18th and early 19th centuries in both Europe and here corporations were viewed with a great deal of suspicion and for the most part governments limited the scope and life of their charters believing quite accurately as the 20th and early 21st centuries have so far proven that corporations are little more than ways for their investors to avoid responsilbity for their behavior.

The older I get the more anti-corporate I become and believe that they should go back to the old way of viewing corporations and keep them on a tight leash.

For the most part small businesses supply choice and corporations reduce it.