PILLARS, PRECEDENTS...HOW ABOUT THE CONSTITUTION?:

Campaign Case Will Test Justices (JESS BRAVIN and T. W. FARNAM, 9/02/09, WSJ)

The Supreme Court next week will hear arguments on whether corporations and unions have a right to spend their money on campaign advertisements, in a case that tests not only a central pillar of federal campaign-finance law but the court's own respect for precedent.

The Supreme Court has been chipping away at the 2002 federal law that limits political spending by corporations and unions, finding that the regulations infringe on their free-speech rights.

They're legal constructs, not people, they have no "free speech rights."

Posted by Orrin Judd at September 2, 2009 8:03 PM