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CitizensUnitedVFederalElectionCommission 10 - 04 Feb 2010 - Main.EbenMoglen
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 How do you guys feel about this decision? Although I haven't read the actual decision yet, I can only imagine how the holding is going to destroy any chance this country has of holding fair elections in the future. I don't really know too much about First Amendment law, but I am outraged that the Supreme Court has forfeited our democracy to uphold such an absurd principle. If anyone ever meets a corporation, please let me know.

-- NathanStopper - 23 Jan 2010

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 Believe it or not, I actually agree with the Court’s decision from a doctrinal point of view. If you force me to operate with the premises that corporations are people and that money is speech, then I don’t see how you can restrict a corporation’s ability to directly spend money on campaign ads. But if I sweep the legal fiction aside and think about the direct ramifications of the ruling, then I can’t stand behind it for the reasons I’ve already mentioned.

-- AndrewCascini - 03 Feb 2010

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So have any of you, in the course of writing all this blather—all of which is at least three times longer than it should be—actually read the case? Or do you think that at some point standards in law school are going to be reduced to a level at which talking about cases you haven't read ceases to be a firing offense?

Giving legal opinions off the top of your head is professionally unacceptable. Each of you is hereby assigned to read Citizens United, in which you are interested, and to write not more than 100 intelligent words about it to replace the discussion presently here.

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