Delaware is home to more corporations than people. Human people, that is, as under longstanding state law and the US Supreme Courtās infamous 2010 ruling, corporations are people, too.
A judge in Delawareāa state with more registered business entities than peopleāruled Monday in favor of a small town that allows corporations to vote in local elections.
Delaware Superior Court Judge Craig Karsnitz ruled that the town of Fenwick Island, population 400, did not violate the state Constitution by permitting business entitiesāwhich make up 12% of the townās āpopulationāāto vote in municipal elections, as case plaintiff the ACLU of Delaware had claimed.
āWhat is a āperson?ā When one cuts to the heart of this case, that is the question,ā Karsnitz wrote to open his 20-page ruling.
Does this mean that a company that outcompetes another into dissolving can be accused of manslaughter?
It means all kinds of contradictory nonsense. The only thing we can be sure of is that corporations will be considered people when it benefits the rich and considered separate legal entities when it doesnāt.
Oh yeah, can corporations be thrown in prison when they commit crimes now?