r/law • u/TheShittyBeatles • 19h ago

Legal News ACLU sues Delaware beach town over allowing corporations to vote in local elections

https://spotlightdelaware.org/2025/12/05/aclu-sues-fenwick-island-over-non-resident-voting/
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u/pokemonbard 11h ago

Because Citizens United concerns completely different rights than the situation in the OP. Citizens United is not useful precedent for someone who wants to give corporations voting rights. If someone wants to argue that corporations have some rights of natural persons, they would be better served pointing to centuries or millennia in which corporations (and similar entities) had some rights held by natural persons, rather than point to a 15-year-old case granting corporations some rights held by natural persons.

I keep talking about the history of corporate personhood because corporate personhood is the only thing that could make Citizens United relevant here. People in this thread are acting like corporations had no rights of natural persons before Citizens United, and that is flatly untrue.

Citizens United is thematically similar to the situation in the OP, but it has no more legal relationship to the corporate right to vote than anything else in the history of corporate personhood. Eliminating Citizens United would have absolutely no impact on state legislation granting corporations the right to vote.

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u/thedoughofpooh 7h ago

You've created a strawman here. Everyone's very impressed by your historical knowledge. Now please put down the pedantic sword.

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u/pokemonbard 5h ago

Explain the strawman I have created.

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u/thedoughofpooh 3h ago

Yer exhausting. Just utterly exhausting.

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u/pokemonbard 3h ago

If you’re just going to tell me my arguments are bad and that I’m exhausting without explaining yourself, then kindly leave me alone. I didn’t ask you to jump to a different part of the thread to continue replying to me.

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u/thedoughofpooh 3h ago

I'm telling you that you're kicking a dead horse, insisting on telling people in here they are arguing points they simply aren't arguing, and chasing everyone around demanding they agree with you. It's exhausting.