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The current Joe Rogan pod is a must listen if you want to hear the inside scoop of corruption in the White House. @calleymeans bravely discloses how SuperPAC money has corrupted voter intent on health topics across the board, especially pesticides.
“SuperPAC money is the most poisonous, polarizing, and consequential money in American politics”
— Dinner with Prof. Lessig
With just a bit more funding, we can eliminate the corruption of SuperPACs. Please join us: CitizensToEndSuperPACs.org
Video overview: youtube.com/watch?v=fFrVcT…
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Why Hasn’t Abdul El-Sayed Accomplished Any Of His Campaign Goals Since W... youtu.be/4vkqSigZeDI?si… via @YouTube
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It is morning in America! Get a hat to celebrate! A rainbow of colors is available. bit.ly/MakeAmericaGoo…
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The parents came home. The cowards in Congress banished. Let the clean-up begin. #MakeAmericaGoodAgain
bit.ly/MakeAmericaGoo…
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Stop the AI scold; focus instead on the substance of what the AI makes x.com/i/article/2117…
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Weird how ideas can live quietly in your head, but when you listen to yourself talk about them, you weep. @aaronsw podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/cam…
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We need to think, deliberately and seriously, about the only possible means to amending our constitution — the convention. I discussed this on the #NCC podcast with the most prominent convention opponent, David Super: megaphone.link/NCC5068480133
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Lessig 🇺🇦 retweeted
@MarioNawfal Wait so the whole case hangs on a lower court decision and not Citizens United itself? Hmm, that changes how I saw this
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Lessig 🇺🇦 retweeted
🇺🇸 Maine voted 75% to ban superPACs and the case is now one appeals ruling from a shot at the Supreme Court... the lawyer who argued down Trump's tariffs is carrying it
The target is a 2010 lower court decision called SpeechNow, which is what created superPACs two months after at distinction is the whole case.
Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig says it lets the justices keep Citizens United intact and still kill unlimited money:
"You can say Citizens United was completely correctly decided, but nothing in Citizens United means we have to have superPACs."
Billionaires went from 0.3% of outside money in 2010 to 19% in 2024, and the first Trump voter Lessig met in Maine signed the petition and spent the day signing up every Trump voter who walked past, so if the First Circuit moves fast, 2028 could be the first election without them.
@WeTheBrandon
The target is a 2010 lower court decision called SpeechNow, which is what created superPACs two months after at distinction is the whole case.
Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig says it lets the justices keep Citizens United intact and still kill unlimited money:
"You can say Citizens United was completely correctly decided, but nothing in Citizens United means we have to have superPACs."
Billionaires went from 0.3% of outside money in 2010 to 19% in 2024, and the first Trump voter Lessig met in Maine signed the petition and spent the day signing up every Trump voter who walked past, so if the First Circuit moves fast, 2028 could be the first election without them.
@WeTheBrandon
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Lessig 🇺🇦 retweeted
Kudos to the camera man. He decided NOPE - ain’t letting him pull this shit. Not today. Not on my watch.
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Lessig 🇺🇦 retweeted
US Tech industry's coziness & alignment with Trump WH has the side effect of making countries not want to adopt American technology if they can avoid it. In other words, it surrenders soft power. Elon Musk is making the risks very clear wsj.com/world/ukraine-…
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Exactly right. Citizens United is the most misunderstood decision in SCT history. The mistake was SpeechNow. We're in the 1st Circuit to fix it, and end Super PACs. equalcitizens.us/against_superp…
@DarrigoMelanietion is through his super PAC and has nothing to do with Citizens United, which was about people acting through corporations. Individuals have been able to spend unlimited money on independent ads since Buckley v. Valeo (1976), and via super PACs since SpeechNow v. FEC (2010).
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Lessig 🇺🇦 retweeted
Law folks: If you’re not using Claude Code or ChatGPT’s Codex, you have no idea what you’re missing. So I’m distributing my research tools that provide a huge boost to legal scholarship. Research assistance, cite-checking, proofreading, and more (thread):
danepps.github.io/legal-research…
danepps.github.io/legal-research…
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These guys — Nico Agosta and Daniel Lobo-Lewis of the Political Integrity Project — are my heroes. I was so happy to have them on our podcast, #AnotherWay. #EqualCitizens Watch and share!
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Lessig 🇺🇦 retweeted
Tonight in #NYC: I debate Ilya Shapiro about "money in politics" — 6:30pm. Join the fun!
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Tonight in #NYC: I debate Ilya Shapiro about "money in politics" — 6:30pm. Join the fun!
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One night out: tomorrow 6:30pm in #NYC, Ilya Shapiro and I debate "money in politics." Join the fun!
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