Examining the SuperPAC With Colbert’s Trevor Potter.
SuperPACs have led to what was described in the New York Times yesterday as a new breed of super-donor. About two-dozen individuals, couples or corporations have given a million dollars or more this year to Republican superPACs that have poured that money directly into this year’s presidential campaign.
SuperPACs, both Republican and Democratic, are empowered by the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision and other rulings to collect unlimited contributions from individuals, corporations and unions. We’re going to talk about this new post-Citizens United world of campaign financing.
Our first guest is Trevor Potter, who has become something of a celebrity since he became Stephen Colbert’s lawyer and advised Colbert on how to create his own superPAC. Potter is the founding president of the Campaign Legal Center and helped defend the 2002 McCain-Feingold law, which enacted campaign finance restrictions.
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