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Andrew Sullivan on the theoretical constitutional argument that the 1st Amendment covers unlimited corporate political spending:

The notion that there is no difference between an individual's inviolable right to speak or publish his or her own views and a corporation's right to flood the marketplace with advertizing to advance its own economic interests and to effectively buy off politicians' votes seems willfully perverse to me in the real world. I see the principle. But I'm pragmatic enough to believe this can be balanced by some good faith attempts to avoid the wholesale purchase of democratic speech by moneyed interests.