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Coportations Are A Legal Fiction, And Now So Is Political Speech
Fiction. As in, not real. Which is pretty much what the United States Supreme Court has made of our fundamental right to freedom of speech when political speech is involved. As in, made it not real but just a fiction of a concept.
From SCOTUSblog on this point of corporations being only legal fiction:
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Defending Police Officers Who Are in Legal Trouble
Fresh out of the Navy, John D. Patten walked into his congressman’s office unannounced; he walked out with a job as an aide. He did the same a few years later, after graduating from law school, selling Frank Hogan, then the Manhattan district attorney, on the story of his working-class Irish upbringing and noting the many times that Mr. Hogan had ( Read more... )
