"Today, the Court has enthroned corporations, permitting them not only all kinds of special economic rights but now, amazingly, moving to grant them the same political rights as the people.
This is a moment of high danger for democracy so we must act quickly to spell out in the Constitution what the people have always understood: that corporations do not enjoy the political and free speech rights that belong to the people of the United States."
Professor Jamie Raskin, constitutional law expert at American University's Washington College of Law and Maryland state senator
The recent court decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Comission has sparked a wave of protest against the corporate hijacking of the First Amendment. To help reverse this decision, it's important to get the background on this recent decision and its ramifications.
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