Business Leaders Hold Meeting To Complain That Corporations’ Free Speech Is Under Attack
Via Think Progress
WASHINGTON, DC — Months after the U.S. Supreme Court radically expanded the rights of corporations to political speech and religious liberty, top business leaders gathered at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington DC on Wednesday to argue that corporations’ “free speech is under attack” and belittle shareholders’ calls for more political spending transparency.
Chamber of Commerce leaders, corporate executives and political analysts praised the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC and the subsequent rulings this year in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby and Harris v. Quinn. Panelists for a session called Today’s Free Speech Environment repeatedly argued that shareholder efforts to enforce political contribution disclosure requirements are an attempt to silence the business community.
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