Yet corporations do not, indeed cannot, speak. But human individuals who operate the corporation, and are protected by the 1st Amendment, can.
Are corporate stockholders and managers to be denied their 1st Amendment rights due to their association with a corporation?
Leftists attack eeeeevil corporations as though they are living, breathing creatures. Yet their operations are guided and controlled by people. Those same people make the decision to express their political opinions, using corporate resources (which they own) and the corporate name (which they own) and they should be prohibited from doing so?
This seems to me to be a thinly-veiled political muzzle on stockholders and corporate managers at the same time labor unions are being granted vast blocks of power, wealth and influence by this administration.
Again, I’m not saying that her “intentions” are sound; what I am saying is that her reasoning on this issue might be.
Nothing prevents an individual employee/manager/officer/shareholder/director, or any group of them, from exercising any first amendment rights. But they are NOT the corporation. They simply aren’t. Period. The corporation is a state-created artificial person.