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Do Corporations Have a Right to Free Speech?


The Supreme Court is going to decide if corporations have First Amendment rights that allow "direct, unlimited corporate participation in campaigns." Let's hope the decision is that they don't: Corporate free speech? Since when?, by Jim Sleeper, Commentary, Boston Globe:...

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Thanks for referencing my two cents (700 words) on why corporate 'speech' isn't the speech the framers of the First Amendment meant to protect. Here's the link to the Boston Globe column. It drew a lot of interesting comments, and I'll post something here at TPM on Monday alerting readers to the column and, more important, Wednesday's arguments in the Supreme Court.

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/09/05/corporate_free_speech_since_when/

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