MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell was seen on Sunday asking attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) to take their face masks off before taking photos with him.
The statue is the work of Tommy Zegan, an American expat who carted his creation up over the boarder from Mexico, where he lives. Zegan is a former youth pastor, and he took umbrage with the idea that he’d built an idol.
“It’s not an idol,” he told Mediaite “I know the biblical definition of an idol. This is not an idol. This is a sculpture.”
Zegan has two versions of the statue. He hopes to sell the famous golden one for $100,000 and has dreams that the second, a stainless steel number, will find a home in a future Trump presidential library. In fact, he already tried once to present Trump with his ido er
In the US the idea has been supported in a series of SCOTUS decisions, starting with
Dartmouth College in 1818.
Most legal scholars point to the 1886
Santa Clara County v, Southern Pacific RR decision as having established the legal precedent for “corporate personhood” (with the help of the Court Reporter; one Bancroft Davis, a former RR executive who ‘wrongly’ claimed that the Court had ruled that corporations had 14th Amendment protections. It had not; while the justices orally agreed beforehand that corporations had such protections, the issue was not included in the case and therefore not decided by the Court).
Later decisions expanded the idea of “corporate personhood rights”. In
You guys already do Hegseth? I used to keep a pretty good scorecard in my head, but I grow old. Hegseth is a professional “As a veteran of the armed forces…” on Fox, right? I think he’s wearing boat shoes for this performance.
Right Wing Watch @RightWingWatch · 3h
Pete Hegseth says that when he sits down with real Americans at diners across this nation, “they’re not talking about esoteric things that the Ivy League talks about.” They’re talking about things like the Bible, standing for the national anthem … and the 10th Amendment.
Jonathan Martin @jmartNYT
Pete Hegseth on @CPAC stage lamenting decline of biblical values Also Hegseth: “During his marriage…Hegseth had a daughter with Fox executive producer Jennifer Rauchet, with whom he was having an extramarital relationship, in August 2017