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If you could overturn one Supreme Court decision, which would it be? (lemmy.zip)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/AskUSA@discuss.online
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I’m torn between Citizen’s United and the one that rolled back Roe v. Wade.

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[–] 7 points 5 months ago (1 child)

The best answer is almost surely going to be something the average person has never heard of but had some sort of fundamental effect 150 years ago.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I would be very surprised by that. Like the other poster said, it’s almost certainly Citizen’s United. Without it there wouldn’t be any of the erosion of regulation that we’ve seen blast through the US in less than two decades.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago*

    But somebody else already mentioned another case that set up CU to succeed. Without that CU wouldn't be an issue.

    There may have been more steps before too.

    But really, initially, there were very early US cases that actually properly treated corps as property, not people. Even forcefully revoking their business charters when they were found to no longer be serving the community but harming it.

    I don't understand how it could be law that corps had to be incorporated as legal entities, with the people's permission via the gov of the people, that for centuries their right to exist was utterly temporary and revokable, and that they were legally only treated as owned tools, but then recently courts decided they had personhood and human rights?

    Seems like earlier precedent disagrees.

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