S1 E5: Corporations Are People | Legalizing Corruption

You might remember Mitt Romney’s infamous line: “Corporations are people, my friend.” But where did this idea come from? In this episode (levernews.com/master-plan-ep-5-how-corporation…): how the Ford Administration and the Powell Memo movement turned to the Supreme Court to establish the precedent that legalized corruption: money is speech, and corporations are entitled to First Amendment rights.

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