nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqzwzcgjztdn95g0cnkk0z9mz393xzzc4c69qqp78350sy83lfrjxqjdawd8 I’m not completely 100% sure of this but I believe #SCOTUS actually used that phrasi...
@nprofile1q... a lot of people get this backwards (a lot of reporting gets it backwards, so that's understandable).
SCOTUS didn't really say corporations are people. It often said the opposite in its rulings.
BUT
Confusion (and political rhetoric) comes out of a legislative shorthand, a term of art ONLY in the context of drafting legislation, where legislators say when we use the term "people" in a statute we normally include corporations just so we don't have to keep repeating it.
That's the long and short of it. People are told this shorthand is meaningful, but it's really not.
@nprofile1q...
SCOTUS didn't really say corporations are people. It often said the opposite in its rulings.
BUT
Confusion (and political rhetoric) comes out of a legislative shorthand, a term of art ONLY in the context of drafting legislation, where legislators say when we use the term "people" in a statute we normally include corporations just so we don't have to keep repeating it.
That's the long and short of it. People are told this shorthand is meaningful, but it's really not.
@nprofile1q...