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Free Speech for the Corporatocracy

The answer to speech is more speech, libertarians will utter.  So you're really going to outspend the GM Corporation?  Goldman Sachs?  If the Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as people, then we can consider the latest bailouts a quasi-bailout, perhaps even the Diet Coke of bailouts.  And why do corporations qua corporations even need free speech rights?I immediately wonder why corporations even need unlimited Freedom of Speech rights. They already have reasonable Freedom of Speech protections (First National Bank of Boston v. Bellotti, 435 U.S. 765 (1978)). Further, everyone who works at a corporation and all the shareholders already have the highest level of Freedom of Speech rights protected by the Constitution. If we give corporations the same Freedom of Speech rights as humans, we are functionally giving extra powers of speech to corporate executives in the C-Suite...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on September 25, 2009 (boomark / email).