{"id":2371,"date":"2010-01-25T01:14:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T05:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/?p=2371"},"modified":"2010-01-25T15:30:51","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T19:30:51","slug":"free-speech-corporate-personhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/2010\/01\/25\/free-speech-corporate-personhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Ode To Odious Corporate Personhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s nothing funny about the U.S. Supreme Court’s activist ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission.<\/em><\/a> Overruling long-held precedents, it gives corporations free rein to buy political influence, all in the name of “corporate personhood” and “free speech.” <\/p>\n

Nor is there anything funny about the hypocrisy of self-described anti-judicial-activism Republicans who laud this calamitous decision.<\/p>\n

And, alas, there’s nothing funny about this limerick:<\/p>\n

Democracy’s Demise?
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

Justice Roberts and co are unbound,
\nDriving precedents precious aground.
\nYet Republicans cheer,
\nAnd the sobs that we hear
\nAre the sounds of democracy drowned.<\/p>\n

     \n<\/p>\n

********<\/p>\n

Lance Mannion managed to extract some humor from this judicial travesty.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s nothing funny about the U.S. Supreme Court’s activist ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission. Overruling long-held precedents, it gives corporations free rein to buy political influence, all in the name of “corporate personhood” and “free speech.” Nor is there anything funny about the hypocrisy of self-described anti-judicial-activism Republicans who laud this calamitous […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,25,85,23,21,157,66,159,10,2,168,154,6,7,13],"tags":[1097,1091,1087,1092,1088,2783,1090,1093,1089],"class_list":["post-2371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-humor","category-constitution-humor","category-constitutional-crisis","category-democracy-humor","category-election-satire","category-fec-satire","category-free-speech","category-hypocrisy-humor","category-judiciary","category-law","category-legal-limericks","category-political-commentary","category-political-limericks","category-political-verse","category-supreme-court","tag-campaign-finance-reform","tag-citizens-united","tag-corporate-personhood","tag-democracy","tag-first-amendment","tag-free-speech","tag-justice-john-roberts","tag-legal-verse","tag-us-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2371"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2371\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/madness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}