Perspective
May 31, 2012
Citizens United: answering unasked questions
The main holding of the decision wasn't the issue the petitioners were seeking an answer to. By Jessica Levinson of Loyola Law School
Much of the backlash around the Supreme Court's much-maligned 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC focuses battle cry that "corporations are not people." Well, as with all things, corporate personhood is a complex area of the law that boils down to sometimes they are, and sometimes they aren't. The substance of the Citizens United decision essentially comes down to two conclusions, both of which I believe are...
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