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Legal scholar Lawrence Lessig on how a Maine law could topple Super PACs
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Concern about outside funds is behind a 2024 law in Maine that caps donations to independent expenditures - or super PACs, as they're called - at $5,000.
He clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia in the early 1990s and helped push Maine's law to limit donations to super PACs.
They found, on a number of dimensions, more than 90% of Americans agree that this political system has become corrupted.
New York Times in March reported that in 2010 - the year super PACs were launched - 0.3% of outside spending came from billionaires.
And I can say, he's depending on the billionaires' money - the AIPAC money, the money coming from the crypto super PACs, all of these super PACs.