Sentences with phrase «same free speech rights»

The US Supreme Court decided in the past year that a corporation has the same free speech rights as an individual, so campaign contribution limits did not apply.
Shouldn't the Supreme Court conclude that if EXXON Mobile and GE have the same free speech right that I do as a citizen that they should pay taxes at the same rate a normal citizen pays?
I ask again, if EXXON Mobil and GE have the same free speech right I do as a citizen then don't you agree they should pay taxes at the same rate a normal citizen pays?

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For precisely the same reasons that I found your statement to be laughable, the government must insure that mechanisms are put in place to insure that the actual persons granted free speech rights by the Supreme Court (the owners of the corporations) are the ones actually exercising their new rights instead of having those rights stolen by fat - cat executives and self - appointed boards.
The issue is that free speech was provided for anti choice proponents, but an alternative plate giving the same right to free speech to pro choice proponents was voted down by the legislature.
In a statement, Broglio's office said: «Archbishop Broglio and the Archdiocese stand firm in the belief, based on legal precedent, that such a directive from the Army (about not reading the letter) constituted a violation of his Constitutionally - protected right of free speech and the free exercise of religion, as well as those same rights of all military chaplains and their congregants.»
Atheists have the same right to free speech as religious zealots.
At the same time, I've always thought that your right to free speech stops at the tip of my nose.
Which could probably conflict with EU rules for the rights of minorities / free speech / political activities, but it is not the same than «death threat against a national minority».
My question, if Exxan and GE have the same right to free speech I do as a citizen — why do they pay much lower corporate tax rates?
In spite of the tyrant's commands and because they had put their lives on the line to defend their rights, the patriots enshrined free speech in our founding documents; the same documents that gave you your job.
I would never suggest that Hansen doesn't have the same right to free speech as any other citizen.
As a result, the right to freedom of speech in the form of the right to discuss, debate and indeed lampoon religion is a fundamental feature of a free society, but the same arguments can not be applied to discussion of race...»
Attorneys devoted their time to gun control cases, voter identification laws, free speech issues, abortion rights and same - sex marriage cases.
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