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Those that might be here that ARE lawyers? I'd STILL bet that Obama has more legal experience than you (and if you have more than he does, what the HELL are you doing here? )...
Only point on that is that Obama understands the law and the Constitution MUCH better than the partisans in here who claim he doesn't...
Actually, President Obama has very little legal experience, when compared to others who have gone to law school & passed a bar exam.
According to the Wikipedia article on the life of President Obama, the total of his legal experience is this;
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In 1993 he joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a law firm of 12 attorneys that specialized in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development, where he was an associate for three years from 1993 to 1996, then of counsel from 1996 to 2004, with his law license becoming inactive in 2002
Three years as an associate attorney. All those years "of counsel" are probably not legal experience at all, but just an association with the firm, during which association he practiced little or no law. Such assumption at least partually validated by the lapsing of his license in '02.
Took 7 pages for someone to hit the nail on the head....
"Free Speech"? I don't think ANYONE cares if the CEO of a corporation wants to use his personal wealth to buy an ad or wants to step up to a podium and speak his mind.....
Anyway, let's have all the lawyers in here raise thier hands..... Everyone else I want to keep in mind that Obama has VASTLY more legal training and experience than you (guarantee we'll have some that aren't that say they are anyway )...
Those that might be here that ARE lawyers? I'd STILL bet that Obama has more legal experience than you (and if you have more than he does, what the HELL are you doing here? )...
Only point on that is that Obama understands the law and the Constitution MUCH better than the partisans in here who claim he doesn't...
Actually, I have way more legal experience than Obama has.
That's pretty much beside the point, however. He clearly understands the Constitution much better than the ravers here who claim he doesn't.
Took 7 pages for someone to hit the nail on the head....
"Free Speech"? I don't think ANYONE cares if the CEO of a corporation wants to use his personal wealth to buy an ad or wants to step up to a podium and speak his mind.....
THIS is about a CORPORATE ENTITY being handed the ability to flood the airwaves with political ads. It is about the entity with the biggest pocketbook being able to yell the loudest and being given unequal access to the people to sway the political process.... IT'S A CROCK!!!
Anyway, let's have all the lawyers in here raise thier hands..... Everyone else I want to keep in mind that Obama has VASTLY more legal training and experience than you (guarantee we'll have some that aren't that say they are anyway )...
Those that might be here that ARE lawyers? I'd STILL bet that Obama has more legal experience than you (and if you have more than he does, what the HELL are you doing here? )...
Only point on that is that Obama understands the law and the Constitution MUCH better than the partisans in here who claim he doesn't...
Then change the law, because the law has viewed a US corporation as a united states person, for many years.
Actually, President Obama has very little legal experience, when compared to others who have gone to law school & passed a bar exam.
According to the Wikipedia article on the life of President Obama, the total of his legal experience is this;
Three years as an associate attorney. All those years "of counsel" are probably not legal experience at all, but just an association with the firm, during which association he practiced little or no law. Such assumption at least partually validated by the lapsing of his license in '02.
And I suppose teaching 2-3 law classes (Constitutional Law among them) per year at the University of Chicago for 8 or so years and graduating from Harvard Law means nothing either.... ESPECIALLY in light of the BRILLIANT legal minds we have right here on City-Data!!!!
This legal fiction does not mean these entities are human beings, but rather means that the law allows them to act as persons for certain limited purposes—most commonly lawsuits, property ownership, and contracts. This concept is separate from and should not be confused with limited liability or the joint stock principle.[4]Also note that basic rights (like the rights to free speech and due process of law) do not necessarily follow from legal personhood.
Took 7 pages for someone to hit the nail on the head....
"Free Speech"? I don't think ANYONE cares if the CEO of a corporation wants to use his personal wealth to buy an ad or wants to step up to a podium and speak his mind.....
THIS is about a CORPORATE ENTITY being handed the ability to flood the airwaves with political ads. It is about the entity with the biggest pocketbook being able to yell the loudest and being given unequal access to the people to sway the political process.... IT'S A CROCK!!!
Anyway, let's have all the lawyers in here raise thier hands..... Everyone else I want to keep in mind that Obama has VASTLY more legal training and experience than you (guarantee we'll have some that aren't that say they are anyway )...
Those that might be here that ARE lawyers? I'd STILL bet that Obama has more legal experience than you (and if you have more than he does, what the HELL are you doing here? )...
Only point on that is that Obama understands the law and the Constitution MUCH better than the partisans in here who claim he doesn't...
Isn’t your argument defeated by the fact that Sam Alito, being a long standing Federal Judge and now a Supreme Court Justice who actually was part of the decision in question has vastly more experience and therefore a much greater grasp of the Constitutional scope of the decision that Mr. Obama?
If we are going to whip our measuring sticks out and see whose is better, I would humbly suggest those who take SA's side are in better company if all I am going to use to decide is YOUR argument....
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