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The Inevitable Limits of Campaign Finance Reform
Scholars Strategy Network
28 Sep 2016
Abstract
Many pundits and citizens blame the Supreme Court’s 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC for the recent explosion of money in politics and the outsized political influence of the super wealthy. But experts in the field know that there have long been strong constitutional obstacles to reducing the political influence of moneyed elites. Experts also know that campaign finance legislation hardly ever works, even when accepted by a more liberal Supreme Court. Plugging leaks is all that campaign finance laws ever seem to achieve, because money finds its way into the political process through loopholes in whatever laws are on the books.
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- Title
- The Inevitable Limits of Campaign Finance Reform
- Creators
- Tabatha A Abu El-Haj - Drexel University, Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Publication Details
- Scholars Strategy Network
- Resource Type
- Blog
- Academic Unit
- Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Other Identifier
- 991022199150004721