I've yet to digest the Supreme Court's decision of today, but it appears to make the remarkable case that a fictional entity that is solely a creature of law has "free speech" rights equal to those of natural born persons. Once again, the judicial right shows itself to be unrepentant activists, contemptuous of both precedent and the actions of our elected representatives.
Anyway, the first thought that leapt to my mind was this quote from the 18th-Century British Jurist, Lord Chancellor Thurlow, who asked "[d]id you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned and no body to be kicked." Well, according to the Supreme Court, a corporation may have neither soul nor body, but evidently possesses a mouth that cannot be shut.
This strikes me as a decision that is monumental in its implications and staggering in terms of its fundamental badness.
