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Alaska Dispatch News
January 24, 2018
21) wants a constitutional amendment stating that corporations are not people and, therefore, have no rights protected by the Constitution, including the right to free speech ... The error with Move to Amend's thinking is that corporations are people, the people who create the corporation, own it, and work in it.
TPM
January 23, 2018
Safe GOP seats gave us such intellectual giants as Louie Gohmert and Steve King. In most cases it's the state Legislature that draws Congressional boundaries. Make it FAIR, OPEN and HONEST! We can do this! Overturn Citizens United. Money is NOT speech and Corporations are NOT people- at leastÃÂ ...
Freeport Journal-Standard
January 23, 2018
If you're like me, moments ago you were asked if you wanted to join the office lunch order. It was a nice gesture but I had to decline. I didn't mind the food they were ordering, I didn't have any other plans for lunch, and my wife keeps encouraging me to learn my co-workers' names. My reasoning, which IÃÂ ...
The Daily News of Newburyport
January 22, 2018
A "We the People Amendment" to the Constitution establishing that corporations are not people and money is not speech is the only viable way to overturn these decisions and restore proper balance to our democratic institutions. Move to Amend and We The People Massachusetts are two volunteer groupsÃÂ ...
Boston Review
August 24, 2017
The mass defection of CEOs of some of the nation's most powerful corporations from President Trump's now-defunct Manufacturing Jobs Initiative and his Strategy and Policy Forum has led to a spate of commentary about the turn of business leaders to politics, much of it suggesting that this is a newÃÂ ...
Indian Country Today Media Network
July 29, 2017
Corporate personhood has been lurking in U.S. law since 1886, but it came to public attention when the corporate person known as Hobby Lobby did not want to pay for health insurance that covered birth control pills because Hobby Lobby has religious scruples against birth control, or did in 2014.
Washington Examiner
April 5, 2017
... is that of corporate personhood. Democratic senators keep bringing up what they claim are landmark rulings in the Citizens United and Hobby Lobby Supreme Court cases that corporations are people. "Any logical person believes that corporations are not people," was how Sen. Brian Schatz, D-Hawaii,ÃÂ ...
LancasterOnline
December 31, 1999
6) Refuses to be influenced by corporate personhood and insists on being supported by grass-roots efforts. These are all actions that neither the Democratic nor the Republican Party can claim, yet the Green Party has consistently and stubbornly demonstrated. Rather than argue over the triumphs andÃÂ ...
EcoWatch
December 31, 1999
The group aims to drive state constitutional change to bolster the rights of local residents and ecosystems against what it calls regressive state preemption and corporate personhood. Grant Township, for example, is elevating a "right of self-government," rights "to clean air, water, and soil" and "ecosystemÃÂ ...
hngnews.com
November 28, 2017
... that “We the People” of the City of Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, seek to reclaim democracy from the expansion of corporate personhood rights and ...
Brattleboro Reformer
November 28, 2017
... are the yachts of the wealthy as they receive the return on their investment in government through Citizens United — corporations are people.
cleveland.com
November 28, 2017
After all, they opened the door to corporate personhood. Why is a corporation a person when influencing elections, but a unique entity when ...
Splice Today
November 20, 2017
Under the Republican tax scheme, corporations are people, but people are not. Homebuyers are penalized, but breweries get a break.
Martinsburg Journal
November 19, 2017
So in the spirit of Mitt Romney, who famously quoted an 1886 Supreme Court case when he said “corporations are people”, my Fantasy Tax ...
Boston Herald
November 18, 2017
Only a tool would say corporations are people, right? ... Harvard Corporation, informs us that Mitt was in fact correct — corporations are people.
Salt Lake Tribune
November 17, 2017
House Speaker Paul Ryan of Wis., arrives for a meeting with House Republicans and President Donald Trump, Thursday, Nov. 16, 2017, on ...
Port Clinton News Herald
November 6, 2017
... in 2016 by Jeff Clements, author of “Corporations Are Not People,” a ... Court decision regarding Citizens United and corporate personhood.
Hanford Sentinel
November 4, 2017
... including other Bill of Rights protections when on corporate property, as mentioned by James Allison in A Corporate Personhood Resolution.
Today's News-Herald
October 29, 2017
People are people – but corporations are people too, based on recent legal opinions. So why not the entire Colorado River ecosystem?
The Economist
October 26, 2017
THE president's tax promise has always been clear: he will reduce the amount middle-earners, but not rich Americans, must pay. Yet every time ...
The Christian Century
October 23, 2017
Writing for the majority, Justice Samuel Alito acknowledged that corporate personhood is just a legal construct but argued that protecting a ...
Boston Review
August 24, 2017
The mass defection of CEOs of some of the nation's most powerful corporations from President Trump's now-defunct Manufacturing Jobs ...
Indian Country Today Media Network
July 29, 2017
Corporate personhood has been lurking in U.S. law since 1886, but it came to public attention when the corporate person known as Hobby ...
Washington Examiner
April 5, 2017
"Any logical person believes that corporations are not people," was how ... What's more, corporate personhood wasn't at the heart of Citizens ...
Poughkeepsie Journal
December 31, 1999
Corporations are not people. Money does not equal speech. And there is nothing in the Constitution or the free speech guarantees of the First ...
The Verge
December 31, 1999
Instead, she compares it to the notion of corporate personhood, which gives companies some of the legal rights and responsibilities of people.
Allentown Morning Call
March 25, 2017
In the Hobby Lobby case, he ruled that corporations are people and can use this status to deny rights to workers and everyday people.
Huffington Post
March 25, 2017
After all, corporations are people too, right? But this was a wooden application of the legal fiction of corporate personhood. The Court should have recognized that while allowing individuals to pool their resources for commercial purposes may serve ...
Gizmodo Australia
March 25, 2017
This development is reminiscent of the so-called "legal fiction" involved in corporate personhood, a deliberate hallucination that's meant to uphold the rights of groups and to smooth business processes.
Alexandria Town Talk
March 23, 2017
Corporations are not people and don't love, hate, show anger or greed, they simply stalk the antelope and devour them home and hair.
Greenville Daily Reflector
March 23, 2017
I refuse to believe that corporations are people until Texas executes one. BYH Greenville. As I understand it, NC has a law requiring vehicles to give pedestrians the right-of-way in a crosswalk.
eNews Park Forest
March 22, 2017
Sebelius, which asserted that that some private corporations are "people" under federal law and have a right to deny basic healthcare coverage if it violates their religious belief.
Kansas City Star (blog)
March 22, 2017
... those laws and more are subject to the religious whims of a company's owner or owners. If religious faith trumps a secular statute - as it did in the Hobby Lobby case - then no law is safe.
AZCentral.com
March 22, 2017
"Instead of probing Judge Gorsuch on whether corporations are people, or why he ruled to allow a truck driver to be fired for seeking medical attention in a snowstorm, Jeff Flake acted like he was on 'Wait Wait Don't Tell Me!
Conservative Review
March 22, 2017
What he didn't mention was that corporate personhood goes back to ancient Rome; it was not a creation of the Supreme Court in 2014.
Christian Post
March 21, 2017
Supreme Court nominee and Tenth Circuit Judge Neil Gorsuch defended the majority opinion of the Hobby Lobby Stores decision from 2014, arguing that it had its basis in laws that Congress passed.
The Union Leader
March 20, 2017
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-NH, last week introduced the Corporations are Not People Amendment, a Constitutional Amendment to ensure that people, not corporations, are entitled to First Amendment-protected political speech,ÃÂ ...
Pacific Standard
March 20, 2017
The Supreme Court agreed, but this decision opened the floodgates for the creep of corporate personhood. In the time since, a series of Supreme Court decisions eroded the distinction between corporations and citizens - corporations got "equal ...
Cincinnati.com
March 20, 2017
In fact, Judge Gorsuch's ruling in the original Hobby Lobby case helped clarify the infamous view that corporations are people. If confirmed, it is clear that Judge Gorsuch, chosen by President Trump from a list assembled with input from the staunchlyÃÂ ...
The Hill (blog)
March 20, 2017
Everyone recognizes that protecting freedom of speech is good and desirable. The fact that a group of citizens is operating a business should not disqualify them from First Amendment protections.
The Hill (blog)
March 19, 2017
Everyone recognizes that protecting freedom of speech is good and desirable. The fact that a group of citizens is operating a business should not disqualify them from First Amendment protections.
Patch.com
March 18, 2017
WASHINGTON, DC - U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter, D-NH, last week introduced the Corporations are Not People Amendment, a Constitutional Amendment to ensure that people, not corporations, are entitled to First Amendment-protected political speech,ÃÂ ...
Flathead Beacon
March 17, 2017
While Trump's nominee, Federal Appeals Judge Neil Gorsuch, hasn't ruled directly on LGBTQ rights, he has a disturbing record of using religious freedom to prevent access to birth control and believes that corporations are people. He's advocated thatÃÂ ...
Brainerd Dispatch
March 17, 2017
Corporate tax reform continues to be a work in progress for the Trump administration and the Republican Congress, where a controversial House plan to slash the top business rate and pay for it, or most of it, with what amounts to a tax on imports ...
Huffington Post
March 16, 2017
And now that the Supreme Court has ruled that corporations are people, we will probably give it to Fox News. It's a lifetime achievement award, usually announced after the recipient dies but in your case we are making an exception.
The Missoulian
March 16, 2017
Much has been made of Gorsuch's employer-friendly record, but it appears that he's only for giant corporations, not regular business people and entrepreneurs.
CattleNetwork.com
March 15, 2017
I know corporations are people, my friend, but a business is subject to different rules. A business is afforded access to services, allowed limitations on financial liability and provided tax breaks and other forms of public subsidies - all with one ...
The Keene Sentinel
March 15, 2017
As the daughter of a man who served his country in Vietnam and then became a police officer, what's going on now is not what he fought, then served the state of Alaska for 28 years, for.
Huffington Post
March 15, 2017
o Campaign for legislation: corporations are not people! o Provide more and better health care through Medicare for All; pay for medical education in return for ten years of salaried service to under-served communities.
State PIRGs
March 15, 2017
The Democracy for All Amendment (H.J.Res.31/S.J.Res.8) would amend the constitution to overturn Citizens United, making it clear that corporations are not people, and giving lawmakers an opportunity to reign in corporate political spending. At the sameÃÂ ...
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