Reply #18: One of the tricky questions is [View All]

how you distinguish "individual" speech from "corporate" speech, especially since most, if not all of the speech that is relevant here comes from groups of one sort of another, though they may or may not be "corporations" under the strict legal definition. There seems to be an underlying current of feeling among critics of the Citizens United decision that political advertising and advocacy coming from groups that they consider "grass roots" or "progressive" is in some way categorically different from that coming from for-profit corporations, as far as the Constitution is concerned. But Greenpeace and BP both have their political agendas, and the Constitution does not apply ideological litmus tests in deciding who should have restrictions on getting their political message out, and who shouldn't.