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Feb 26 2010

Corporations declared ‘people’

By Laura Bleeke in Upfront

Just before the midterm congressional elections, the 20-year old Supreme Court ruling that barred corporations from spending freely in elections was broken. Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Kennedy, Alito, Thomas, and Scalia all voted in favor of the ruling that would allow corporations to spend freely in elections. Justices Stevens, Breyer, Ginsburg, and Sotomayor made [...]

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