Category Archives: Plutocrats United
Yeah, Influence and Access of the Super Wealthy Don’t Matter
Adelson > Reid > Obama.
Wow.
Doesn’t matter that he didn’t get it. He got the Senate Majority Leader to make his pitch.
Listen to Matea Gold, Fredreka Schouten and Me on Diane Rehm Talking $ in Politics
“How Current Campaign Finance Laws Are Shaping The 2016 Presidential Race”
I’ll be on the Diane Rehm show tomorrow with a terrific panel:
Thursday, Jan 07 2016 • 10 a.m. (ET)
How Current Campaign Finance Laws Are Shaping The 2016 Presidential Race
Republican presidential hopeful Chris Christie is among those speaking… Continue reading
“Do We Need a Constitutional Convention on Campaign Finance?” (Spoiler Alert: No!)
I have written this oped for the LA Times. It begins:
Should the United States convene a constitutional convention to clean up the campaign finance mess created by the U.S. Supreme Court? My answer is absolutely not. That’s neither a… Continue reading
“Money Talks”
Glenn Altschuler reviews Plutocrats United at Huff Post Books:
In Plutocrats United, Richard Hasen, a professor of law and political science at the University of California, Irvine and the author of The Voting Wars: From Florida 2000 to the Next… Continue reading
“How the Koch network rivals the GOP”
Ken Vogel in Politico:
Koch and his brother David Koch have quietly assembled, piece by piece, a privatized political and policy advocacy operation like no other in American history that today includes hundreds of donors and employs 1,200 full-time, year-round… Continue reading
Politifact Rates as “Mostly False” Ted Cruz Statement about Democrats’ Proposed Constitutional Amendment to “Overturn” Citizens United
Here.
I actually devote part of a chapter of Plutocrats United to Ted Cruz’s charges.
“Hospitality and Gambling Interests Delay Closing of Billion-Dollar Tax Loophole”
NYT:
In the span of a mere 11 days this month, $1 billion in future federal tax payments vanished.
As congressional leaders were hastily braiding together a tax and spending bill of more than 2,000 pages, lobbyists swooped in… Continue reading
Albert Alschuler and Larry Tribe Think Gov’t Should Try to Rein in Super PACs and Overturn SpeechNow
See this Newsweek piece.
I think it is pure fantasy to suggest anyone in the Citizens United majority would vote differently on a challenge to the SpeechNow decision, which relied on Citizens United to find a right of individuals to… Continue reading
Second Brennan Center Event on Plutocrats United
This Jan 21 lunch workshop (by invitation) may interest academics, law students, and policy folks, and it will feature Yasmin Dawood, Janai Nelson, Nick Stephanopoulos and me:
Plutocrats United
A Brennan Center Workshop
Thursday, January 21, 2016
12:00 p.m. –… Continue reading
Get a Free Look at the Introduction to Plutocrats United
Amazon has just put the Kindle version of my new book, Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections, on sale for preorder.
If you click on the Kindle version of the book, and… Continue reading
“What Will the Presidential Elections Cost Us?”
My kickoff event for the Plutocrats United book tour and talks will be the day the book is released, January 12, in my hometown of Los Angeles with Zocalo Public Square:
TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2016 7:30 PM… Continue reading
#PlutocratsUnited is “Heroin for Political Addicts”
So tweets Tom Edsall:
Heroin for political addicts: "Plutocrats United" @rickhasen https://t.co/uoIa3RkCs6 buy advance: https://t.co/w0SjJbVCDP
— Thomas Edsall (@Edsall) November 30, 2015
Thanks Tom!