I’m actually a little bummed by the decision after reading through it. I still agree with the conclusion but it was formulated on the notion that there can be no distinction between a media corporation and a non media corporation, blah blah blah.

What it means is that corporations (including unions) can buy press or make their own press dis-respective of any political content, in the exact same way that newspapers can.  Being that press is free, and speech is, and because congress can pass no law abridging them, the court had to deliver this ruling or risk granting special status to the arbitrarily defined class of people ‘media’.

It’s a good decision but I would have liked to see more analysis on the corporation/person thing because that could have been explosive.

As I wrote in response to the belly-aching at MNPublius about this.

… pause and think about the economic impact of every US citizen having the rights of a corporation. Do you realize that a Sub Chapter S corporation is the only business entity that can deduct its health care expenses? Well guess what. Not any more. Where you need to be worried is that Kennedy was the one that wrote the decision. Where you need to worry is that some of even your liberal judges may be persuaded that just as our constitution and bill of rights were based on the principals of natural law, so must our laws today. Rooted in this law today is the notion that a contract can have legal status no greater and no lesser than the people that made that contract. Being that all men are seen as equals in the eyes of the law it would necessarily follow then that a contract must share the legal status of person.

Being that a Corporation is nothing but the embodiment of a Contract its income cannot be treated any differently than those people signed to the contract.

Unfortunately having read the actual language my hope is a tad diminished.

I still think that equal protection is a point that needs to be pressed.   You don’t have to be a lefty to want equality and justice or to distrust the ‘corporation’ every bit as much the ‘government’.  Right and left should be able to agree that no individual nor entity can be afforded special legal priviledge  and that if any corporation or government entity or agent has such a priviledge, everyone else should be entitled to it as well.  This wont satisfy them on their wish for an equality of outcome, but that sort of guarantee is no longer one our government should making.