SUPREME COURT RULES THAT CORPORATIONS AS PEOPLE GET THE RIGHT TO VOTE

By R J Shulman

WASHINGTON – (PTSD News Service) – The US Supreme Court, in a 5-4 decision ruled that corporations as people are entitled to the right to vote.  Chief Justice John Roberts speaking for the majority said, “It is unconscionable in this day and age that a person can be denied the right to vote in the original democracy with a Constitution that provides that all are created equal.”

The Court’s decision in Occupy v. United Citizens, a case primarily about whether members of Occupy Oakland had a right to buy groceries at a nearby 7-11, also held that since corporations’ voting rights have been denied for so long, that the states had to make it especially easy for corporations to vote by allowing them three weeks to vote.  In addition, under Occupy, the Court held that a corporation is entitled to one vote per share.

Writing for the minority, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, “After a careful and studious analysis of the majority opinion, I have absolutely and with certainty come to the conclusion that this Court had gone batshit crazy.”