Does McCain Feingold censor corporations, infringing on their free speech rights? Are corporations people, with the same rights guaranteed in the constitution? Could corporate money influence elections? Bill Moyers Journal presents both side of the issue before the conservative activist Supreme Court next week. The answer is clearly no, corporations aren't like people, but advocates of corporate personhood cannot be swayed by reality. The odd thing is, these are the same people claiming to be strict constitutional constructionists, like Justice Thomas and Scalia.
Trevor Potter, the founding president and general counsel of the Campaign Legal Center, and someone who helped to successfully defend the McCain-Feingold law in the lower and Supreme courts, obliterates Floyd Abrams arguments promoting corporate free speech.
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