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even though the discussion often gets reframed. Around catchphrases like "corporate personhood" in the case of Citizens United.

That's a funny one to listen for: people who think that Citizens United had anything to do with corporate personhood.



In general, people are probably wrong to do so but "corporate personhood" was widely tossed around in the context of the Citizens United decision: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/07/the-supr...

(Not sure you were saying otherwise.)

As a soundbite, it's such a red herring anyway. Of course corporations act like individuals in some ways (and not in others). Corporate entities can enter into contracts that aren't tied to a particular employee. They generally have freedom of speech. But they can't be put into prison (except metaphorically.)


To be fair, that guy is a politician, who makes his hay by deliberately confusing the topic.


Hobby Lobby was actually about corporate personhood, and it was very recent. Maybe you are conflating things that are only temporally adjacent.


Since I didn't say anything about Hobby Lobby at all, I don't think I'm the one doing conflating.




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