No surprise that America got railroaded into accepting the canard that a corporation is a person with the right to vote. With two million corporations chartered in Delaware leaning on the shoulder of the judge, how could he decide otherwise? It may be regarded as "settled law" by SCOTUS, but we also know that term means nothing when it comes to voting or abortion. On the basis of the Callais decision, corporations could be gerrymandered out of any voting rights. Or perhaps we could redefine corporations as uteruses?
Another outrage: A federal judge yesterday declined to block an executive order Trump signed in March targeting mail-in voting and directing the creation of a federal database of citizens to help guide states on voter eligibility. The judge said it was premature for the court to intervene, adding that the administration had yet to carry out much of the order, leaving most of the harm predicted by the lawsuit as hypothetical. Zach Montague and Adam Sella report for the New York Times.
Here is what frosts me. Who, when, where and how to vote is left up to the individual states, neither congress nor the president can legislate or sign an executive order. And why the governors of the blue states at least, are not publicly stating that Trump's executive order is of no legal consequence or effect is beyond me.
As regards Delaware. I owe it to you Thom, for bringing to my attention, the fact that Delaware has the most lax Corporate Charter Laws in the nation, a consquence of the Charter Wars, started by j. D. Rockefeller. That over 600 corporations, mostly financial, are hartered in Delaware
Joe Biden when in the senate , although from Delaware was known as the Senator from Wall Street,
My governor is Ferguson (WA) and I and Christopher Armitage have written him, as I amsure others have, as to the way that the State has it's own power to defend it's citizens against the Federal Government, and crickets.
I've noticed that governors of blue states are great at standing in front of a mic and bloviating, but stepping back and taking pen to paper, they are useless.
Alligator mouths, humming bird asses. I would like to see some intestinal fortitude, not political wariness and caution.
Here is the latest from Christopher. I was turned on to him by Thom on his TV show, Channel 269 Dish and DirectTv
His letters are blueprints fro hauling in the excesses of Trump and ICE using the power of the State, and the states are Superior to the Federal government, and sovereign, except where they have ceded their rights to the Federal Government.
William,you are right about the governors of Blue States being useless as are most democratic legislators. The DEMS are weak,the " Nazis" know this and have no fear of any Dem or any organization including "Indivisible".There should be outrage,there is none.
So here is my take. Starting last summer when Trump stated there would be guardrails on AI ,the stock market has gone parabolic as have all chip cos. I would bet you that every DEM lawmaker,the Supreme Court, the billionaires but also everyone who has an IRA or retirement account has done exceeding well,so they have decided that Trump,the " nazi"is OK as long as they have made money.
At its simplest, fascism is the merger of corporation and state with violence.
The state is an organisation of the people.
The Supreme Court has already given corporations rights under several amendments to the constitution, and now it looks like it will give it the right to vote as well, which it has denied to many people despite the constitution giving them the right.
The state is also giving corporations welfare.
The oligarch techbros behind the 'throne' are working towards a people-less society.
ICE is wreaking violence on the people. Making it impossible for people to make ends meet is a form of violence.
A study some time ago showed that what ordinary people want, they don't get, when it comes to legislation.
America is already a fascist state.
BTW - how will a corporation show photo ID or a full form birth certificate or driving licence or passport?
How, precisely, will corporations be allowed to vote? Will the CEO be given a ballot? How many votes will they get? this is beyond insane and must be stopped…
Does that mean if a CEO votes a one person corporate vote that they can still vote as an individual citizen? Or does every person in a corporation have a corporate vote possibly meaning several thousand corporate votes? Do they then get to vote as individual citizens? Does the corporation have to provide ID, birth certificates etc? Insanity!
Wow! Substack made me go through a bunch of hoops to “prove” I’m a paid subscriber in order to reply to your comment. Which is nuts, since I wouldn’t have been able to enter my comment to which you replied had I not been a paid subscriber. So irritating!
In any case, yes, this whole concept is completely insane, just bonkers. I have to reread the column to understand how it even happened…but it’s obvious that it can’t possibly work.
Why stop with businesses? How about professional corporations that will have the franchise separate from the practitioners who created them? Then each of these people essentially has two votes. Let's go further. Incorporate each AI program downloaded into a separate robot. They don't have to think otherwise, just follow their inputs. Then they can all vote. We could call this block the "Marching Androids Gaining Autonomy", or MAGA, for short.
Sir, I would have been terribly helpful if you had quoted from Justice Rehnquist’s dissent in First National Bank versus Belotti that since corporations are “ceated” by the individual states, they should constitutionally be able to regulate their conduct. Rehnquist was a conservative member of the court who later became the chief Justice in the 1990’s—- no flaming liberal !!!! Was he. His dissent failed to stem the tide of the the flood towards equal personhood with flesh and blood humans as true persons—- more is the pity……
People who are immature, irrational, insecure, domineering, and arbitrary use rationalizations and fuzzy or faulty thinking to reach decisions and to justify abuses and the promotion of selfish interests. People with those characteristics or tendencies are not supposed to become judges and certainly not Supreme Court justices. But through a long series of events and mishaps, many such people have infiltrated our judiciary. Their decisions are contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution, the law and democratic principles. Getting rid of them and exposing their illogic should be a top priority for liberal/progressive Democrats. The next best thing will be to expand the Supreme Court with as many people as possible who demonstrate more intellectual honesty, integrity, ethical training, and discipline. Meanwhile, we need to support people and organizations such as Democracy Docket and keep showing up at protests with big, loud signs.
So the Gilded Age of old "willed" to us the continuing ability of corporation & their oligarch owners the ability to speak with money.
Well, if money talks then listen to my wallet, I have about $60.00 in there & those dollars are telling me that they are lonely & they want some big brothers & sisters to keep them company, you know $50 dollar bills & they want even more really big bros & sisters the $100 bills, & they want lots of them, they want so many that I'll need a wheelbarrow to carry all of them around, make that a dump truck, you know one of those really HUGE ones they use in major construction projects. That should satisfy my wallet for a week or two, but I expect it will want more after that because as you know things that have money want more & more, they never can get enough!!!!
Here's an article by Reuters on the decision to continue the practice of allowing non-resident property owners to vote in Delaware in local elections, despite the ACLU lawsuit challenging the practice. The non-resident property owners who get a vote in local elections have included corporations (artificial entities) since state legislation passed in 2008.
We need to amend the amendment process to make it easier to amend the Constitution. The Supreme Court can't change an amendment; we need at least two more amendments to protect voting rights and one to address excessive, untaxed wealth. And how about an amendment to limit the amount of campaign contributions per donor, to provide public funding for elections, etc.?
No surprise that America got railroaded into accepting the canard that a corporation is a person with the right to vote. With two million corporations chartered in Delaware leaning on the shoulder of the judge, how could he decide otherwise? It may be regarded as "settled law" by SCOTUS, but we also know that term means nothing when it comes to voting or abortion. On the basis of the Callais decision, corporations could be gerrymandered out of any voting rights. Or perhaps we could redefine corporations as uteruses?
So . . . by this rationale, in a divorce proceeding:
If your MAGA-Corp-employed husband is, say, a raving, red-hatted MAGA nutjob, then
The wife [who's not-MAGA] can, nay, SHOULD sue his Delaware, MAGA-Corp. employer as
correspondent, for popping hubby's eyeball out and skull-f*cking him 8 hrs/day until
he orgasms into an unreachable/unteachable MAGA zombie.
Delaware: Where a car is a potato salad, and Clarence Thomas is a human being.
That state [Dela-Where?] has lost its way.
#VOTE or Die #Barron to Kharg
Another outrage: A federal judge yesterday declined to block an executive order Trump signed in March targeting mail-in voting and directing the creation of a federal database of citizens to help guide states on voter eligibility. The judge said it was premature for the court to intervene, adding that the administration had yet to carry out much of the order, leaving most of the harm predicted by the lawsuit as hypothetical. Zach Montague and Adam Sella report for the New York Times.
Here is what frosts me. Who, when, where and how to vote is left up to the individual states, neither congress nor the president can legislate or sign an executive order. And why the governors of the blue states at least, are not publicly stating that Trump's executive order is of no legal consequence or effect is beyond me.
As regards Delaware. I owe it to you Thom, for bringing to my attention, the fact that Delaware has the most lax Corporate Charter Laws in the nation, a consquence of the Charter Wars, started by j. D. Rockefeller. That over 600 corporations, mostly financial, are hartered in Delaware
Joe Biden when in the senate , although from Delaware was known as the Senator from Wall Street,
William,good question.Why aren't the governors of Blue States stating that Trump's executive orders are of no legal consequence?
My governor is Ferguson (WA) and I and Christopher Armitage have written him, as I amsure others have, as to the way that the State has it's own power to defend it's citizens against the Federal Government, and crickets.
I've noticed that governors of blue states are great at standing in front of a mic and bloviating, but stepping back and taking pen to paper, they are useless.
Alligator mouths, humming bird asses. I would like to see some intestinal fortitude, not political wariness and caution.
Here is the latest from Christopher. I was turned on to him by Thom on his TV show, Channel 269 Dish and DirectTv
https://cmarmitage.substack.com/p/what-do-you-do-if-hundreds-of-fbi
His letters are blueprints fro hauling in the excesses of Trump and ICE using the power of the State, and the states are Superior to the Federal government, and sovereign, except where they have ceded their rights to the Federal Government.
William,you are right about the governors of Blue States being useless as are most democratic legislators. The DEMS are weak,the " Nazis" know this and have no fear of any Dem or any organization including "Indivisible".There should be outrage,there is none.
So here is my take. Starting last summer when Trump stated there would be guardrails on AI ,the stock market has gone parabolic as have all chip cos. I would bet you that every DEM lawmaker,the Supreme Court, the billionaires but also everyone who has an IRA or retirement account has done exceeding well,so they have decided that Trump,the " nazi"is OK as long as they have made money.
Yes, I second your thoughts on Christopher Armitage, his newsletters are excellent.
At its simplest, fascism is the merger of corporation and state with violence.
The state is an organisation of the people.
The Supreme Court has already given corporations rights under several amendments to the constitution, and now it looks like it will give it the right to vote as well, which it has denied to many people despite the constitution giving them the right.
The state is also giving corporations welfare.
The oligarch techbros behind the 'throne' are working towards a people-less society.
ICE is wreaking violence on the people. Making it impossible for people to make ends meet is a form of violence.
A study some time ago showed that what ordinary people want, they don't get, when it comes to legislation.
America is already a fascist state.
BTW - how will a corporation show photo ID or a full form birth certificate or driving licence or passport?
Sue,great comment. America is a " Nazi" state,much like Germany from 1934-41. Will americans ever figure it out.?
Thanks.
How, precisely, will corporations be allowed to vote? Will the CEO be given a ballot? How many votes will they get? this is beyond insane and must be stopped…
Does that mean if a CEO votes a one person corporate vote that they can still vote as an individual citizen? Or does every person in a corporation have a corporate vote possibly meaning several thousand corporate votes? Do they then get to vote as individual citizens? Does the corporation have to provide ID, birth certificates etc? Insanity!
Wow! Substack made me go through a bunch of hoops to “prove” I’m a paid subscriber in order to reply to your comment. Which is nuts, since I wouldn’t have been able to enter my comment to which you replied had I not been a paid subscriber. So irritating!
In any case, yes, this whole concept is completely insane, just bonkers. I have to reread the column to understand how it even happened…but it’s obvious that it can’t possibly work.
A few more thoughts...
What if the corporations are minority- or foreign-owned?
How can ICE intimidate corporations? Or is that Trump's job?
Is it only for-profit corporations?
What if every democrat formed a corporation?
Why stop with businesses? How about professional corporations that will have the franchise separate from the practitioners who created them? Then each of these people essentially has two votes. Let's go further. Incorporate each AI program downloaded into a separate robot. They don't have to think otherwise, just follow their inputs. Then they can all vote. We could call this block the "Marching Androids Gaining Autonomy", or MAGA, for short.
Sir, I would have been terribly helpful if you had quoted from Justice Rehnquist’s dissent in First National Bank versus Belotti that since corporations are “ceated” by the individual states, they should constitutionally be able to regulate their conduct. Rehnquist was a conservative member of the court who later became the chief Justice in the 1990’s—- no flaming liberal !!!! Was he. His dissent failed to stem the tide of the the flood towards equal personhood with flesh and blood humans as true persons—- more is the pity……
People who are immature, irrational, insecure, domineering, and arbitrary use rationalizations and fuzzy or faulty thinking to reach decisions and to justify abuses and the promotion of selfish interests. People with those characteristics or tendencies are not supposed to become judges and certainly not Supreme Court justices. But through a long series of events and mishaps, many such people have infiltrated our judiciary. Their decisions are contrary to the letter and the spirit of the Constitution, the law and democratic principles. Getting rid of them and exposing their illogic should be a top priority for liberal/progressive Democrats. The next best thing will be to expand the Supreme Court with as many people as possible who demonstrate more intellectual honesty, integrity, ethical training, and discipline. Meanwhile, we need to support people and organizations such as Democracy Docket and keep showing up at protests with big, loud signs.
Trump has already bought stakes in a few corporations. Perhaps he aims to turn America into one big corporation which owns everything.
Note to Dems: Going along to get along may prove undesirable.
So the Gilded Age of old "willed" to us the continuing ability of corporation & their oligarch owners the ability to speak with money.
Well, if money talks then listen to my wallet, I have about $60.00 in there & those dollars are telling me that they are lonely & they want some big brothers & sisters to keep them company, you know $50 dollar bills & they want even more really big bros & sisters the $100 bills, & they want lots of them, they want so many that I'll need a wheelbarrow to carry all of them around, make that a dump truck, you know one of those really HUGE ones they use in major construction projects. That should satisfy my wallet for a week or two, but I expect it will want more after that because as you know things that have money want more & more, they never can get enough!!!!
Here's an article by Reuters on the decision to continue the practice of allowing non-resident property owners to vote in Delaware in local elections, despite the ACLU lawsuit challenging the practice. The non-resident property owners who get a vote in local elections have included corporations (artificial entities) since state legislation passed in 2008.
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/delaware-court-upholds-voting-by-companies-small-towns-election-2026-05-26/
What happened to Delaware? Are all the people there brain dead?
What if one corporation or person formed zillions of corporations?
We need to amend the amendment process to make it easier to amend the Constitution. The Supreme Court can't change an amendment; we need at least two more amendments to protect voting rights and one to address excessive, untaxed wealth. And how about an amendment to limit the amount of campaign contributions per donor, to provide public funding for elections, etc.?