No, Gand-Alf. It was Citizens United v. FEC [(08-205, 558 US 310 (2010)]., which is a U.S. constitutional law case dealing with the regulation of campaign spending by organizations. The United States Supreme Court held that the First Amendment prohibited the government from restricting independent political expenditures by a nonprofit corporation. The principles articulated by the Supreme Court in the case have also been extended to for-profit corporations, labor unions and other associations, basically giving "personhood" to these entities, which I totally disagree with. Scalia, joining the majority, wrote a separate opinion in which he played cutesy with a very thin precept that "... the Free Press clause was originally intended to protect the distribution of written materials and did not only apply to the media specifically", which implies that just because television and internet media had not been invented at the time of the creation of the Free Press clause, there is somehow a loop hole that hold these forms of media super and separate from the reach of that clause. That argument is so childish as to make Scalia a laughing stock of SCOTUS history.

Comment by Gand-Alf on February 13, 2016, 6:52 pm

Someone made a typo.. Are you referring to the Bush Gore decision? If you read the decision he made it was correct..

Comment by Wolfie1968 on February 13, 2016, 6:46 pm

One down, one more to go before we can strip "personhood" from corporations in a revisit of the ridiculously corrupt SCOTUS ruling that gave corporate america permission to buy elections for the 1%. He was never a Chief Justice.

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