Now Disney, a corporation, speaks in a manner pleasing to liberals and displeasing to conservatives. amicus brief of Pacific Legal Foundation in Citizens United ). Forum), while conservatives applauded it (see e.g. Floyd Abrams, “ Citizens United and Its Critics ,” Yale L. Liberals generally hated that holding (see e.g.

Federal Election Commission (2010) held that corporations’ speech was protected by the First Amendment. I imagine many liberals would agree with him, and that many conservatives would not. Robert Corn-Revere’s recent analysis of the Disney controversy is, in my view, exactly right, and I commend it. The following commentary is by Ira Glasser, who served as the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1978 to 2001.