Ronald Dworkin on Citizens United: a corporation is a legal fiction without opinions of its own.

Ronald Dworkin criticizes  the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision — ruling that corporations are entitled under the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech to an unlimited right to contribute money to political campaigns — for the same two reasons I have. First, the majority overturned precedent while hypocritically espousing their respect for the concept of adhering to precedent, and, second, because it is absurd to treat a corporation for First Amendment persons as the equivalent of a human being:

The opinion announces and perpetuates a shallow, simplistic understanding of the First Amendment, one that actually undermines one of the most basic purposes of free speech, which is to protect democracy. The nerve of his argument—that corporations must be treated like real people under the First Amendment—is in my view preposterous. Corporations are legal fictions. They have no opinions of their own to contribute and no rights to participate with equal voice or vote in politics.