Stevens, who will be 90 in April, is reticent about the role of personal experience on judging. But in a glancing reference to his own Navy service during World War II, he points out that the majority’s claim that government cannot legally distinguish between corporate and individual speakers “would have accorded the propaganda broadcasts to our troops by ‘Tokyo Rose’ during World War II the same protection as speech by Allied commanders.”

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“Corporations have no consciences, no beliefs, no feelings, no thoughts, no desires … they are not themselves members of ‘We the People’ by whom and for whom our constitution was established.” Side by side Sachs and Stevens reveal that this is an odd constitutional moment indeed in America, in which corporations are treated like living persons by judges who aspire to be machines.

via Why Judges Should Let Personal Experience Count – Dahlia Lithwick – Newsweek.com.