privately held

…Corp. , 503 U. S. 407, 422 (1992) (public purpose of "facilitating Amtrak's rail service" served by taking rail track from one private company and transferring it to another private company); Brown v. Legal Foundation of Wash. , 538 U. S. 216 (2003) (provision of legal services to the poor is a valid public purpose). It is worth…

…large business entities or their tax-exempt adjuncts. Some nonprofit corporations are created for an ideological purpose. Some closely held corporations are strongly identified with a particular owner or founder. The fact that §203, like the statute at issue in Austin , regulates some of these corporations’ expenditures does…

…rights of those who use it. Cf. Republic Aviation Corp. v. Labor Board , 324 U. S. 793, 798, 802, n. 8 . Thus, the owners of privately held bridges, ferries, turnpikes and railroads may not operate them as freely as a farmer does his farm. Since these facilities are built and operated primarily to benefit the public and since…

…See MCFL, supra , at 258. The Chamber argues that § 54(1) is substantially overinclusive, because it includes within its scope closely held corporations that do not possess vast reservoirs of capital. We rejected a similar argument in FEC v. National Right to Work Committee , 459 U. S. 197 (1982) ( NRWC ), in the context of…