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cascadiance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jun-05-09 02:54 PM
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21. I think if decided intelligently, "corporate personhood" could be rolled back...
Edited on Fri Jun-05-09 02:55 PM by cascadiance
... and not affect Roe v. Wade.

An intelligent decision by a SCOTUS that isn't a set of corporate toadies could intelligently preserve the concept of stare decisis (established law), which would protect Roe v. Wade from being overturned, by saying that in the case of Santa Clara vs. Union Pacific, it WAS NOT the judges decision in that case to award "corporate personhood" rights to corporations, but in fact a manipulation of court documents (the head note by the court clerk who should have NO judicial power by him/herself) that put in place this concept. Perhaps by rolling back corporate personhood, using this argument, we can avoid creating havoc with stare decisis with other "established law" decisions, not only can we fix the biggest wrong that has created so much of the mess we face now, but it would also set precedent to avoid having another head note "create law" in the future by having this one rolled back.

If we can get Obama and others to put justices on the court that might follow this model, this would be a way to be able to rule not too radically to create other messes, but help fix the biggest mess facing us now, whether Korporate Amerika likes it or not!
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