Trump: The 14th Amendment Won’t Hold Up In Court

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101. But SCOTUS conservatives know that overturning 14th amendment might overturn Citizen's United!

Since the more nebulous "person" language in the 14th amendment has been used over the last century to let activist corporate court clerks and justices to use it to give corporations "personhood rights" since the language didn't say "natural" persons the way the authors probably had meant it to have said. Read more here:

http://www.crisismagazine.com/2012/corporate-personhood-and-14th-amendment-rights

If the Supreme Court overturns it, they risk other court challenges to Citizen's United (not having to use a constitutional amendment the way Move to Amend is feeling the need to do now) since the legal "basis" for that decision (the 14th amendment) would no longer exist and therefore invalidate many of the decisions that were based on this corporate personhood interpretation. I think that Roberts, Alito, etc. are smart enough to keep that from happening, and if they hear a challenge by Trump's people, they probably would rule against it for those selfish reasons that their corporate backers would want them to use.