Fixing Bugs, live! with Larry Lessig **today 5pm Eastern**
Can SuperPACs be limited by state law? On campaign finance and more...
Today, please join our first Substack Live with guest Lawrence Lessig!
I’m Sam Wang, scientist and democracy reformer. The U.S. political system has many deep flaws. Can they be mitigated through targeted action? And what’s the long-term plan for rebuilding the whole system?
These questions inspired me to work on elections and democracy. They are the focus of Fixing Bugs in Democracy, and they’re what the Electoral Innovation Lab team and I work on. To stop the damage and build a new system, we have just a few years.
I am pleased to launch a new series of conversations. In today’s episode of Fixing Bugs, my guest is Professor Lawrence Lessig. Larry is a professor at Harvard Law School, and he’s both a thinker and a practitioner. Our topic is campaign finance reform.
Voters in Maine want to limit Super PACs. Can their approach survive court challenge? That court case will be argued in the First Circuit at the end of this month. Read Larry’s thoughts on Super PACs over at Equal Citizens. We’ll use that as our starting point - and get into other ailments of campaign finance.
Join us at 5:00pm Eastern today!