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joshcryer

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2. I don't think Citizens United forbids a law from being tailored that...
Thu Jan 5, 2012, 08:44 AM
Jan 2012

...targets only for-profit corporations, it only says that corporations as a whole cannot be suppressed, as the FEC was doing administratively (not legislatively).

DISCLOSE Act is an example (though weak, because it doesn't prohibit for-profit corporations speech), which was introduced by Democrats, but was voted down.

Citizens United can mean that a new law can be tailored that goes after for-profit corporations, at the bare minimum if such a law was made the Supreme Court would have to rehear the case on the grounds that corporations are not people.

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