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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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🇺🇸 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 Citizens United, and that 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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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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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-starli…
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_sup…
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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-rese…
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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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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Tomorrow at 6:30pm in #NYC, I debate Ilya Shapiro on "money in politics." Join the fun!
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Tomorrow night in #NYC: I'm debating Ilya Shapiro about "money in politics" — 6:30pm. Join the fun!
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I'm debating Ilya Shapiro about "money in politics" Tuesday in #NYC — 6:30pm. Join the fun!
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One hour to go. At 4:45pm ET, Jill Lepore opens the HLS conference on an Article V ("constitutional") convention. Streaming here: vthepeople.org/watch.html
Today at 4:45pm ET: the HLS conference on an Article V ("constitutional") convention begins, opening with a talk by the extraordinary Jill Lepore. Watch here: vthepeople.org/watch.html
And so it begins: ©-maximalism breaking AI: Seedance 2 refused the following prompt, blaming concerns about copyright. Hey ©-maximalists: Where do I go to license the right to create a cartoon "in the style of a 1960s cartoon"?
"A cartoon character in the style of a 1960s cartoon approaches a soda machine; he puts twenty-five cents into the machine and presses a button; the machine shakes a bit but then does nothing; the character gets angry and shakes the machine, but nothing happens."
One day out. Tomorrow at 4:45pm ET, Jill Lepore opens the HLS conference on an Article V ("constitutional") convention. Streaming here: vthepeople.org/watch.html
Tomorrow at 4:45pm ET, a conference on an Article V ("constitutional") convention at HLS opens with a talk by the extraordinary Jill Lepore. Tune in this weekend — streaming here: vthepeople.org/watch.html
#IssueOne finds OVERWHELMING support in America for critical anti-corruption reform, including limits to Super PACs (thus de-"super"-ifying them).
issueone.org/new-polling-sho…
