McCullen v Coakley - SCOTUS Done Screwed Up

[HYHYBT]

Impeaching whichever ones act contrary to the ethics rules other judges must obey, but impeachment merely for issuing a ruling you don't like is a dangerous road to go down.

[Gravekeeper]

Impeaching whichever ones act contrary to the ethics rules other judges must obey, but impeachment merely for issuing a ruling you don't like is a dangerous road to go down.

To be bluntly honest, that ruling is already a dangerous road they're making the country go down. They are granting constitutional rights to business organizations that supersede the constitutional rights of individuals. Now that they've given corporations the right to free speech and religious freedom, what's next? They get the right to search and seize their employee's property?

[HYHYBT]

Yes, but destabilizing the judiciary by making them have to rule by what the public wants would still make things worse, long-term.

[TheHuckster]

Now that they've given corporations the right to free speech and religious freedom...

I'm not sure if you simply worded this poorly, but corporations have always had free speech rights and religious freedom. The government was never able to go to a private corporation and say, "Hey, you can't have crosses/star of David/turbans in your office" nor could they prevent them from saying anything that conflicted with the governments' interests.

A lot of things, some good, and many bad, came out of the "personhood" ruling, but granting them religious freedom and free speech wasn't one of them.

[Gravekeeper]

I'm not sure if you simply worded this poorly, but corporations have always had free speech rights and religious freedom.

Yes, but not on the level of an individual. Two previous precedent cases had to be overruled for the Citizens United ruling.