As Milbank says, corporations are people who dont like birth control. And then there is this set of details, which will wreak havoc on tenure cases throughout the land: The 1993 Religious Freedom Restoration Act, the basis for Alito’s opinion, referred to “a person’s exercise of religion,” without mentioning corporations. So Alito, while granting that “artificial persons” are sometimes excluded from the definition of personhood, reverted to the “Dictionary Act definition of ‘person,’” which includes corporations. (The Dictionary Act also defines “writing” to include typewriting, multigraphing, mimeographing and manifolding, and it says the words “‘insane person’ shall include every idiot.”)
Posted on: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 14:37:42 +0000