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Thursday, 05/13/2021 12:06:36 AM

Thursday, May 13, 2021 12:06:36 AM

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Yep, the Koch's have been too successful in their own way. And, yep, Citizen's United was on my mind much of the time on that one.

Since the Supreme Court's ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission in 2010, upholding the rights of corporations to make unlimited political expenditures under the First Amendment, there have been several calls for a Constitutional amendment to abolish corporate personhood.[10] The Citizens United majority opinion makes no reference to corporate personhood or the Fourteenth Amendment, but rather argues that political speech rights do not depend on the identity of the speaker, which could be a person or an association of people.[11][12]

Individual shareholders cannot generally sue over the deprivation of a corporation's rights; only the board of directors has the standing to assert a corporation's constitutional rights in court.[7]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate_personhood#In_the_United_States

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