A modest proposal.

[Stonepounder]

I was grumbling this afternoon to my long suffering partner about the HL decision and Citizens United. Then I was struck with an idea. Since SCOTUS seems determined to preserve, protect, and defend corporate personhood, how about ...

My spouse and I and our daughter, who lives next door, get together and form a closely held corporation. Me President, spouse vice-President, daughter Secretary. We get the proper papers, pay our fee, and file at the courthouse. Come up with a fancy name for our corporation.

Once we have everything in place, we march down to the Registrar of Voters and tell them that we want to register our corporation to vote. Since corporations are 'persons' then they ought to have all the rights of citizens and should be able to vote as well. Find a good attorney who wants to have some fun with the courts (and probably make a name for him/herself) and sue the Board of Elections when they turn us down, and keep appealing right straight up to the SCOTUS. Let them explain why corporations have Free Speech protection, Freedom of Religion protection, but don't have that most basic right - the right to vote.

Just a little modest proposal.

[Kablooie]

1. One problem with your idea.

You assume they won't give your corporation the right to vote.

My guess is that you would win your case.

[SheilaT]

2. Perhaps you need to ask why no corporation has not done so already.

And despite the "personhood" crap from the Supreme Court, no one, least of all those who register voters, is going to confuse a real live human person with a corporation.

You would lose.

[alcibiades_mystery]

3. You're acting as if there is a consistent law

Corporate personhood isn't an actual principle that applies across the board. It is a meager excuse to allow the rich owner-class to rule, pure and simple. If you and your family formed a closely held corporation, the courts would continue to laugh at you, because you still don't get it. They support the owner class, period. There is no law but the law of tooth and claw.