justice marshall, all to chief
justice rehnquist.
the court has always said a
corporation is not an
association of people, not a
membership organization.
a corporation is an artificial
entities chartered by the state
legislature.
there are executives, but the
money comes in to the mcdonald's
corporation or the enron
corporation or goldman sachs,
that -- wait a second.
the money that comes in is not
coming for political purposes.
in other words, you do not go to
mcdonald's to contribute to the
mcdonald's corporation political
office.
all the more so with money for a
utility, for example.
but you can now take money out
of the corporate treasury and
put it into politics to get
someone elected or kick somebody