[Sosfbay-discuss] campaign finance - supreme court

[Wes Rolley]

Jim Doyle wrote:
> Sotomayor and the rest of the court will return Wednesday for the argument in a key case about campaign finance law.
>
> What is this case about?
A business man produced an extremely negative "documentary" of the life 
of Hilary Clinton.  It was not allowed to be broadcast during the 
election cycle as a violation of limits on campaign contributions within 
a certain number of days before an election.  

The business man claimed it was a matter of free speech.. a guarantee to 
all citizens.

However, the legal owner of the material was not the man himself, but 
rather a corporation that he had set up to fund and produce the 
documentary.  This makes the case really one about corporate personhood 
and whether such free speech guarantees that we as citizens enjoy can 
also be enjoyed by corporations. 

It is a very, very major case and Greens should be paying a lot more 
attention to it.



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