But it is clear that he would use special rules for must-pass budgets in order to attach pro-corporate amendments reducing taxes, loosening bank regulation and cutting funding for Obamacare.
As many scholars have documented – including Yochai Benkler, Jack Balkin, and Robert Post and Amanda Shanor – corporations have sought to undermine publicly interested regulations as a violation of corporate First Amendment rights.
Corporate First Amendment protections would likely foil lawsuits (and even some regulation) designed to promote the public interest by ensuring fair, open, and neutral ordering of data flows online.
In the nineteen-nineties, he worked on multiple cases helping the Bell companies try to avoid or nullify telecommunications regulation, and in the 2009 he helped Time Warner Cable fight net-neutrality rules, based on a theory of corporate First Amendment rights.
"The Times' concerns about curtailing corporate Fourth Amendment rights or limiting media organizations are fear-induced hypotheticals," Burke said to HuffPost.
A whole series of court decisions have created more and more restrictive hoops for government investigations of workplace violations in the name of corporate 4th Amendment rights.
It is ironic that the Court defends corporate First Amendment rights on grounds that more properly should be applied to low income individuals.
Frequently, the arguments raised in these cases tried to expand corporate First Amendment rights by making elaborate claims about how a given regulation was unconstitutional.
In addition, recent corporate law amendments in Korea now prohibit poison pills, require super majority board approval for related party transactions, and place strict independence and corporate governance burdens on directors.
Just as Grover Norquist's anti-tax pledge has become the rallying cry for conservatives at the federal and state levels, the Bernie Sanders anti-corporate personhood amendment can become a similar litmus test for all candidates who want support from the Occupy Movement.
...That is shameful". Billionaire Republican donors Charles and David Koch have been pushing for the corporate crime relief amendment.
