Ron Fein: Why do we want to limit the influence of money in politics and what do we tell the courts? For 40 years, since the Supreme Court’s 1976 Buckley v. Valeodecision, the legal arguments for limiting big money in … Continue reading
Category Archives: political equality
WSJ: Donald Trump’s first attempt to seize some control over the Republican National Committee and the course of the GOP convention is creating a showdown over a little-noticed election for a powerful internal post that helps determine who can become … Continue reading
For the last few days, I’ve been blogging about a new paper of mine on Windsor v. United States over on Balkinization (here, here, and here). I offer a new spin on it, one that invokes Ely’s Democracy and Distrust … Continue reading
Larry Lessig has posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming California Law Review). Here is the abstract: How we understand the “corruption” of Congress goes a long way to showing why, and how that “corruption” can be remedied. In this paper, … Continue reading
Demos has released a new report. The takeaway, according the Center for Public Integrity, is that “The U.S. political system is increasingly gamed against Americans of modest means — a situation exacerbated in recent years by major changes in the … Continue reading