"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
Rep. Kucinich Says He's Working on Amendment to Address Both Citizens' United and Buckley v Valeo
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