Ever since the Supreme Court ruling on Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission shattered campaign finance law 15 years ago, Americans have lived unhappily with the belief that only two things can stop corporate and dark money in politics: a constitutional amendment or a sudden change of heart from the majority on the nation’s highest court.
That belief has been paralyzing. It tells Americans they’re powerless. And it’s wrong.
There is another path. The Center for American Progress has crafted a legal strategy that can make Citizens United irrelevant – a method of ending corporate and dark money, state by state, using a power every state already holds. The approach is moving in Montana today, and it can be taken up tomorrow by any other state.
The above excerpt was originally published in USA Today.
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