According to a poll by ABC News, 76 per cent of Americans oppose their Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision to grant corporations the same rights as individuals when it comes to political speech and can therefore freely use their profits to support or oppose electoral candidates. The opposition is unanimous with solid majorities of both liberal Democrats and conservative Republicans opposing the ruling and favouring congressional efforts to limit corporate and union spending.
While Democrats craft legislation to limit the impact of the court’s decision, Vermont politicians, ever ready to stand up to corporate power, have presented an anti-corporate personhood resolution to the state legislature that proposes “an amendment to the United States Constitution … which provides that corporations are not persons under the laws of the United States.”
