Thursday, January 20, 2011

SUPREME COURT - Inconsistency Applied to Corporations?

"Supreme Court hesitant to extend 'personal privacy' restrictions to corporations" by Robert Barnes, Washington Post 1/19/2011

Excerpt

It might be an understatement to say the Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed skeptical that corporations have "personal privacy" rights that would prevent the government from releasing documents about them.

At times, the justices were almost mocking in their questions.

The case stems from AT&T's claim that the government should not release certain information about the company when requested under federal public records laws.

Wait, I obviously have missed something. Like their logic.

This is the same Supreme Court that said corporations could have unlimited funding of election campaigns, parties, etc, AND hide that information from the electorate (public)?

Can anyone explain their inconsistency? IF companies do NOT have "personal privacy" (personal like human being) but they DO have the same Constitutional Right as citizens (human beings) when it comes to political funding!???

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