LAT: Hillary Rodham Clinton knows her plan to stop big businesses from secretly funneling tranches of cash into politics may not fly with the Supreme Court and Congress, so she has a backup plan: publicly shame the companies. Clinton… Continue reading

Tom Mann writes.

Watch. Talking of overturning Citizens United may be good policy, but it also appears to be good politics, especially as Hillary Clinton faces pressure from the left on the issue from Bernie Sanders and now Larry Lessig.

WaPo: Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Rodham Clinton is proposing a federal program to match small political campaign donations as a way to dilute the influence of megadonors and unregulated outside money. Clinton plans to release details of the plan… Continue reading

Tweet Politico 9 Things to Know About Lawrence Lessig And from last week, my ELB Podcast interview with Lessig, ELB Podcast Episode 3: Larry Lessig: Bold Campaign Reformer or Don Quixote?

Campaign Finance Institute: We know by now that the presidential campaigns raised early money from mega-donors at an unprecedented clip, with most of the money during the first half of 2015 going into legally independent Super PACs. The Campaign… Continue reading

NYT: But the mammoth big-money network assembled by Republicans in recent years is torn about how best to defuse the threat Mr. Trump holds for their party, and haunted by the worry that any concerted attack will backfire. In… Continue reading

Smart Lynn Vavreck NYT Upshot column: Mr. Trump may continue to eschew money from lobbyists and special interests and condemn those candidates who take it, but a closer look at the F.E.C. fund-raising numbers reveals an interesting pattern that… Continue reading

Bloomberg: But “not coordinated” isn’t clearly defined, and candidates have taken advantage of that. This year almost every presidential candidate in the field has at least one supporting super-PAC that’s ostensibly acting independently of his or her campaign, though… Continue reading

David Keating for the Daily Caller: That’s why the quick rush to cover Lessig is important to note. You see, passing even more complicated campaign finance laws isn’t actually about saving America from corruption. Lessig, the media, and the rest… Continue reading