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> If you look at the text of the first amendment, the word "person" doesn't appear in that part.

This is irrelevant, but anyway it has the word “people” in it. Either way the bill of rights is a list of personal rights.

> The Supreme Court was going to decide whatever they wanted, regardless

The Supreme Court is also supposed to justify their position. It makes sense to protest their justification. That’s how the courts work.

Not a single activist would continue to protest if the ruling was overturned. Absolutely no one actually cares about what legal terminology is used beyond lawyers. It’s an effective slogan because it gets to the heart of why the ruling was so ridiculous. To change the slogan “corporations aren’t people” would either reduce accuracy or reduce understandability. It is the correct slogan, no matter whether the legal terminology continues to be useful



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