Interestingly, Citizens United is not directly about corporate personhood and does not depend on that general metaphor. It depends instead on two other metaphors. • Money Is Speech • Nonpersons Have the Right to Speech These two metaphors form a logic: People have a right to as much speech as they want. Since money is speech and nonpersons have the right to speech, it follows that nonpersons have the right to spend as much money as they want on elections. This 5-to-4 vote by a conservative court was politically motivated. Corporations have much more money to spend on political campaigns than
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Re: Citizens United ruling
