We Don’t Need to End Citizens United to Rein in Super PACs
A different court decision is to blame for the corrupting impact of super PACs, argues Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig.
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The business model of American politics is clear, and it is clearly corrupt. The strategy of this corruption was perfected in 2024 by crypto super PACs: take out a couple of prominent opponents, support a couple of rising supporters, and recruit, if you can, a presidential candidate to support your view. The crypto super PACs leveraged that strategy to flip crypto policy in America in one election cycle from imperfect but sensible to essentially lawless. Now, with that strategy, AI super PACs are standing up hundreds of millions of dollars, intending to block the regulation of AI.
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