Don't Blame "Corporate Personhood"  American politics is in
trouble. A tsunami of unaccountable, untraceable political money
is overwhelming the Republican race for the presidential
nomination and threatens to do the same to the fall election.
For many people, especially progressives, the culprit is easy to
name: the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v.
Federal Election Commission, which swept away any limits on
election-advocacy ads by corporations, unions, and “independent”
political-action committees (PACs) and issue groups. Many
progressives believe that Citizens United “made corporations
people” and that a constitutional amendment restricting
“corporate personhood” will cure this political ill.  Citizens
United is a bad decision. This obvious fact may even be dawning
on the Court’s conservative majority, which is taking a
surprisingly leisurely look at American Tradition Partnership,
Inc. v. Bullock, in which the Montana Supreme Court directly
challenged Citizens United, in essence telling