United Citizens: The Supreme Court Ruling on Corporate Personhood

Attorney and activist David Cobb will discuss efforts to end corporate personhood after the recent Supreme Court ruling that the government may not ban political spending by corporations in candidate elections. In Citizens United, the Court struck down a provision of the McCain-Feingold Act that restricted corporate-sponsored broadcast communications. The ruling overturned two precedents about the First Amendment rights of corporations. David Cobb has worked with the Program on Corporations, Law and Corporations, the Center for Voting and Democracy and ReclaimDemocracy.org. Cobb was the Green Party nominee for President of the United States in 2004, and previously served as the General Counsel for the Green Party. In 2002 he ran for state Attorney General in Texas.