A federal court in Alexandria, Va. on Thursday struck down a federal ban on corporate campaign contributions, in a case with potentially dramatic ramifications for a campaign finance regulatory system under siege by legal and regulatory attacks.
The ruling, from the U.S. District Court for Eastern Virginia, piggybacked on a January 2010 Supreme Court decision, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, that allowed corporations to spend money on ads supporting or opposing candidates.
Citizens United stopped short of allowing corporations to give directly to candidates, but it did find that corporations are entitled to free speech rights.
District Judge James Cacheris ruled that, based on Citizens United, corporations should be allowed to contribute directly to candidates’ campaigns.“If human beings can make direct campaign contributions … and if, in Citizens United’s interpretation … corporations and human beings are entitled to equal political speech rights, then corporations must also be able to contribute within (the federal) limits,” Cacheris wrote in a 52-page decision.
Where do these judges get the idea that corporations are “people”? They’re an entity, a concept, non thinking, at least not with one collective thought. When one person in a corporation breaks the law then every employee should go to jail, and each pay the fine’s, the whole corporation. We really need to recall these judges.
so your boss at work or the owner of a large corporation decides whom to endorse for a myriad of reasons, one could be a government perk the other personal or moral beliefs, and then imposes their views on employee’s, claiming and showing employee’s who has been decided as their right candidate according to anothers opinion….and these paid workers being told what to do at work, they should feel obliged or experience a bit of pressure to follow what their “boss” says in order to keep their job..and a civil discussion at work on politics will commence? I could swear many businesses don’t allow or enjoy political and religious discussion at work or with clients/customers as employee’s are to not engage in debate or arguments…..Its not going to impose on others or scare people from their freedom of speech (having pressure on who to vote for via your “boss”)? Besides voting is a private issue, and none of your bosses business anyway right? None of this sort of government covert action or ruling is a new trend or such- just think in our free country lists of people had no rights based on their skin color, who they have sex with or their gender, until the past century-why is that?
And is true quite a few federally registered major corporations were sold to foreign interest- so to think here- if they are owned by non Americans- then outside interest can now play a larger role in controlling elections. Nifty. Sounds fishy-I know…. lets call that government agency and complain to get some help…lol