What a difference an Orange Man makes.
January 21 marked the fifteenth anniversary of the Supreme Court's Citizens United v. FCC ruling. In that case, the court found that campaign finance laws restricting the political spending of corporations and unions violated the First Amendment. In the intervening decade and a half, we've been treated to various and sundry diatribes from Leftists who claim that corporations are not, in fact, people and do not enjoy First Amendment rights.
On the sixth anniversary of the ruling, tried and true commie Bernie Sanders went on a rant, calling the ruling an 'absurd notion. Jeb Bush vowed to end Citizens United when he ran, unsuccessfully, for president that same year.
Please clap.
But these days, the Left's driving force is simply this: Orange Man Bad. Therefore, whatever impedes, harms, or thwarts the agenda of President Trump is fine by them.
Including embracing the notion that corporations are, in fact, people who have First Amendment rights.
On March 6, President Trump signed an executive order stripping employees at Perkins Coie, the law firm behind the Russia hoax, of security clearances.
Yesterday, a judge ruled the order -- you guessed it -- unconstitutional.
Breaking: Judge rules Trump order pulling security clearances from law firm unconstitutional https://t.co/D0xEAJA5v1
— John Solomon (@jsolomonReports) May 2, 2025
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Friday ruled that President Donald Trump's executive order targeting the law firm Perkins Coie was unconstitutional and blocked the administration from enforcing it.
The president signed an executive order in March that pulled the security clearances of some of the firm's staff, claiming the law firm engaged in 'dishonest and dangerous activity,' and essentially barred its attorneys from federal buildings.
The firm sued the administration over the order, accusing the administration of targeting the firm for its representation of Democratic clients, such as Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign.
Judge Beryl A. Howell decided to skip a trial over the case and ruled that the president's actions amounted to unlawful coercion, and violated the First and Fifth Amendments.
I spent some time looking through the Constitution and found no clause that said security clearances were a right. They are not. They are a privilege afforded to vetted and cleared individuals. And that privilege can be revoked at the pleasure and whim of the government.
No one is entitled to them.
By this judge's logic (I use that term loosely), a security clearance is more easily obtained than a driver's license. Which courts have spent decades telling us is a privilege, and not a right. This means that I could demand a security clearance on the grounds that denying it violates my rights.
But I notice that not one of the people who spent fifteen years clutching their pearls about Citizens seems all that bothered by a judge saying corporations have First Amendment Rights. Weird, that.
Instead, the Left continues to do what it does best: play Calvinball.
See, granting corporations First Amendment rights helps them oppose President Trump today, so corporations are magically people.
For now.
The rest of us, however, see how this game is played. It's why we rejected the Democrats in 2024 and -- if they don't get their act together, will continue rejecting them in 2026 and 2028. Parties with 21% approval ratings do not win elections.
We all know that tomorrow, they'll lick their finger, stick it in the air, and figure out which way the political winds are blowing before they decide what rights we do and don't have. Because nothing -- not rights, not the Constitution, not due process -- has any meaning so long as President Trump is in office. The Left will eschew every norm, rule, and law in their rabid pursuit of stopping him.
And then they'll scream about how Trump threatens and undermines the rule of law, norms, and American democracy.
Spare me.
No one has broken more brains than President Donald Trump and no one has broken more laws trying to stop him from doing the job that we elected him to do than the American Left.
