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I'm not here to be -- to beat up on president obama, i just want to make this point. and yet, -- in first national bank of boston versus balante, the supreme court held, more than 38 years ago, that quote the identities of the speaker is not decisive in determining whether speech is protected, corporations and associations contribute to the discuss, debate and dissemination of informs, ideas the first amendment seeks to foster, unquote. well, balat esm was decided two years after the landmark case of buckley versus bavia, in buckley, they recognized corporations have the first amendment right ...

Area would be the youngstown analysis, which makes very important what congress has done, where congress authorizes the president, it's one thing. where congress has said nothing, still another. where congress has specifically barred the activity in question, you're talking about a much, much higher bar for the the president to jump over in order for the action to be found constitutional. >> thank you very much. if i might, let me go on to an environmental issue in the commerce clause. and as we all know, the commerce clause is used to legislate many different matters. i think the lopez decisi...

Inaccurate, and that's what we're establishing. when president obama criticized the citizens' decision in the state of the union address with the supreme court justices sitting there, he said that it would allow foreign corporations to fund american elections. now, this has said the same thing. do you agree that this case involved an american nonprofit organization, not a foreign corporation, that this case involved independent political speech, not campaign contributions, and that the separate laws regarding political spending by foreign corporations and campaign contributions by anyone are s...