Of Buckley and Valeo, the Senate, and the DC Circuit. Here [corrected link].

Mr. Buckley is blasé about Citizens United: “I must confess that as a matter of pure policy, not constitutional law, I wouldn’t mind if institutions with commercial interests—unions and corporations—couldn’t express themselves, so long as individuals could express themselves in any way they want, and groups of individuals organizing for the purpose of expressing their views.”

Thus he still thinks the justices got it wrong in 1976 by upholding individual contribution limits—a finding reaffirmed in Citizens United—and he hopes they’ll eventually overturn it. Asked to gauge the prospects, he answers: “How about 50/50?” He acknowledges that there is “something to” the concern about the appearance of corruption, but says “you have to balance the costs and benefits, and restricting the ability of people to get into the game to me is a capital sin.”