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Corporate First Amendment Rights After Citizens United: An Analysis Of The Popular Movement To End The Constitutional Personhood Of Corporations, Susanna K. Ripken
Corporate First Amendment Rights After Citizens United: An Analysis Of The Popular Movement To End The Constitutional Personhood Of Corporations, Susanna K. Ripken
Susanna K. Ripken
No case in the Supreme Court’s last term was more controversial than Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission (Citizens United). In a sharply divided 5:4 decision, the Court invalidated strict federal campaign finance laws and upheld the First Amendment right of corporations to spend unlimited sums of corporate money to support or oppose candidates in political elections. Although mainstream criticism of Citizens United was fierce and widely publicized, a lesser known response to the case is a grassroots popular movement calling for an amendment to the Constitution establishing that money is not speech and that human beings, not corporations, are …