Supreme Court Agrees to Reconsider Citizens United

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35. Your logic is flawed.

1) the New York Times publishes articles and stories written by people who are expressing their particular views. It doesn't matter if the writer is EJ Deonne or that asshat Cal Thomas; as people, they are protected by the first amendment. Beyond that, the views expressed by a paper is in print, and as such is a form of communication.

2) Citizens United Inc. is free to express their opinion in the same way, ie pay talking heads to write or go on TV with the CUI 'message'. The issue is that CUI has argued that money is speech when it is not. CUI wants to be able to give unlimited amounts of money to PACs and candidates rather than writing and producing their own messages.

The big problem is that the SCOTUS has determined that Corps are people under the law when they are not. They have extrapolated that corporate speech is made with money rather than by actual communication.