Supreme Court Agrees to Reconsider Citizens United

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28. No one here has yet suggested a good solution.

For all the caterwauling about Citizens United, I'll point out that no one here has yet provided a clean solution. I'll ask here the same questions I have asked in other threads:

1) Should the New York Times, which is a corporation, and not a natural person, have 1st amendment protection in publishing political views?

2) Should the Citizens United, Inc., which was a corporation, and not a natural person, have 1st amendment protection in publishing political views?

3) If your answers to the two questions above differ, on what legal criteria do you propose to distinguish the two?

In the Citizens United ruling, the Supreme Court said it could not find such criteria. So far, I haven't seen that those who dislike that decision are able to do much better. The problem is precisely drawing a line around what defines "the press."