AB 919: Confronting a Bad Supreme Court Ruling
By Pedro MorillasCALPIRG
In January, the Supreme Court ruled in a contentious 5-4 opinion that corporations have the same free speech rights as people. In the eyes of the court, the ‘We the People’ preamble to the Constitution applies to corporate entities because corporations are, well, groups of people.
Flowing from this skewed logic, the court struck down nearly a century of law that forced corporations to seek contributions from individuals affiliated with the corporation to fund their political contributions, people like shareholders, employees and board members.
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