Almost everyone who claims to care about democracy agrees that Citizen United was a terrible decision, and that getting big corporate money out of politics has to be a priority.

But most politicians, like Gov. Gavin Newsom, wring their hands and say: Nothing we can do. The Supreme Court has ruled.

But that might not be true.

Robert Reich, public policy professor at Berkeley and former secretary of labor, makes a good point (that had never occurred to me) in a substack post. He points out that corporations are creatures of the states, not the federal government.

Corporations are legal entities that have extensive rights, including the right to do business, to hire and fire people, to donate money … many of the things human beings can do. By creating a corporation, business people can av

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