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		snowwrestler on March 3, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Congress finally showed it's willing to fight the ... Citizens United depends on the concept that corporations have 1st Amendment rights. But it did not create that concept. That has actually been settled law for a long time; it is how newspapers (which are corporations) are able to enjoy freedom of the press--not just the reporters individually. So Citizens United could be overturned and it would not hurt Apple's case at all.

emergentcypher on March 3, 2016 [–]

Umm, newspapers enjoy freedom of the press because the 1st amendment explicitly guarantees freedom of the press.

> Congress shall make no law [...] or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press

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