“Some Supreme Doubts on Super-PACs”

Frank Wilkinson for Bloomberg View:

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy having second thoughts about the campaign finance system he helped to create? The author of Citizens United v. FEC defended his handiwork before an audience of Harvard Law School students last week. But his confidence seemed shaken.

“In my own view, what happens with money in politics is not good,” he said.

It’s hard to imagine what part of the system Kennedy believes is working. It takes a lot of money to organize political campaigns and communicate with tens of millions of voters. And the supply side of campaign finance has simply overwhelmed the enforcement side.

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