Arizona Free Enterprise v. Bennett
5-4
Prologue Projects
4.6 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
The hosts return to examining cases with a little-known campaign finance decision from 2011: Arizona Free Enterprise Club PAC v. Bennett. They discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling, which declared unconstitutional a matching funds program for political candidates who opt out of private fundraising, effectively killing public campaign financing. The hosts also talk about the Trump campaign’s ongoing efforts -- in the courts and otherwise -- to contest the results of the 2020 election, and how likely they are to affect the Biden victory.
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| 0:00.0 | We'll hear argument first this morning in case 10, 2, 3, 8 Arizona Free Enterprise Club Freedom Club PAC |
| 0:06.7 | versus Bennett and the Consolidated Case. |
| 0:12.4 | Hey everyone, this is Leon from Fiasco and Slowburn. |
| 0:15.6 | On today's episode of 5-4, Peter, Rianne and Michael are talking about a campaign finance case you probably haven't heard of. |
| 0:22.9 | Arizona Free Enterprise Club PAC be Bennett. |
| 0:26.9 | In 2011, the Supreme Court struck down an Arizona program that provided matching funds for political candidates who opted out of private fundraising. |
| 0:35.8 | The ruling effectively killed publicly funded campaigning. |
| 0:39.2 | When elected officials are beholden to big donors, they may act to serve those special interests. |
| 0:45.8 | By supplanting private cash in elections, public financing eliminates the source of political corruption. |
| 0:53.8 | This is 5-4, a podcast about how much the Supreme Court sucks. |
| 1:03.6 | Welcome to 5-4, where we dissect and analyze the Supreme Court cases that have infiltrated American life like an invasive species. |
| 1:13.5 | I am Peter, here with Michael. |
| 1:17.3 | Hey everybody. |
| 1:18.3 | And Rianne. |
| 1:19.3 | Hi there. |
| 1:20.9 | Today's case is Arizona Free Enterprise Club V-Bennett. |
| 1:25.6 | We're coming off a spade of election-related episodes and it's been a while since we just sort of did a case. |
| 1:31.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.0 | We want to try to return to normal in the hopes that doing so will distract you from the ongoing soft coup. |
| 1:39.4 | Which we'll talk about a little bit at the bottom of this episode. |
| 1:42.4 | The incompetent coup. |
| 1:44.0 | Yeah. |
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