William Rehnquist was nominated for the Supreme
Court by President Richard Nixon in 1972 and became
the most conservative member of the court.
This week the five conservative judges of the US
SupremeCourt overturned the 100-year-old concept
that corporations, since they are not individuals, do not
possess the same rightto free speech as do individuals.
As a result, huge multi-national corporations and unions
will now be able to spend millions of dollars trying
to influence elections--without consulting their
shareholders or members. This decision is obviously
contrary to the opinion of the conservative and former
Chief Justice.
"Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist once warned that
treating corporate spending as the First Amendment
equivalent of individual free speech is 'to confuse
metaphor with reality.' Today that metaphor won a
very real victory at the Supreme Court. And as a
consequence some very real corporations are feeling
very, very good."
(HuffingtonPost,1/22/10)
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