GREAT FOR JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR!!!

I have never understood the reasoning behind granting a corporation the rights of an individual and I'm glad that someone on the Supreme Court feels the same way.

Analysis: Two precedents in jeopardy
Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 11:55 am | Lyle Denniston
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At another point, Sotomayor said state and federal legislatures for 100 years had been “trying to find that balance” of what to allow and forbid in campaign finance, but that a new shield of constitutional protection for corporations might “cut off that future democratic process.”

She added that the Court’s “error to start with” may have been its decision decades ago to treat corporations as “persons” for constitutional purposes. She wondered if the Court would “be doing more harm than good” with a broad ruling “in a case not involving a for-profit corporation.”