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View submission: The US Supreme Court and Plutocracy
"I wish that I could conclude on the hopeful note that recent controversies about *Citizens United* might encourage SCOTUS to rethink its move to outfit large businesses with what are effectively special political rights. Given Trump’s reelection and his selection of a Cabinet dominated by representatives of big business, the courts are unlikely to move in new, more fruitful jurisprudential directions. Writing in 1937, Arnold hoped that the “personification of the corporation” was on the way out. There are few grounds for such optimism in the US today."
Comment by Spacecowboy78 at 24/01/2025 at 16:55 UTC
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Corporations are legally considered people. But then they get to live forever trying to pull money out of the economy. And they also avoid jail time or the death penalty when they break the law or get people killed.
Immortals with criminal immunity are obviously going to be the winners in a capitalist country. And it appears they are in the final lap.