Lawrence Lessig Thinks the Supreme Court Will End SuperPACs
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🗓️ 30 December 2024
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Summary
... and he might actually be right! Listen in and hear why.
OA1105 - Harvard Law professor and anti-corruption advocate Lawrence Lessig is almost certainly the only person on Earth to have had a personal relationship with both visionary hacker Aaron Swartz and former Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia. We warmly welcome Professor Lessig back to OA to share--among many other things--his experiences with each of these very different people, why he remains optimistic about campaign finance reform going into the second Trump administration, and the originalist argument against Super PACs.
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“Why They Mattered: Aaron Swartz,” Lawrence Lessig, Politico (12/22/2013)
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They Don’t Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy, Lawrence Lessig (2024)
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Republic Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It, Lawrence Lessig (2011)
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| 0:00.0 | You must never ever give out or give in. You must keep the faith and keep your eyes on the prize. |
| 0:07.6 | That is your calling. That is your mission. That is your moral obligation. That is your mandate. |
| 0:13.4 | Get out there and do it. Get in the way. Change happens because people care. |
| 0:26.6 | You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. |
| 0:36.6 | I still believe with all my heart, America can't. free and beautiful to make this life a wonderful adventure. |
| 0:44.1 | I still believe with all my heart, America can be a place where no child is left hungry, |
| 0:47.9 | no community is left behind, and no one gets told they don't belong. |
| 0:55.0 | The fight for our country is always worth it. Hello and welcome to opening arguments. |
| 0:59.0 | This is episode 1105. |
| 1:02.0 | I'm your host Thomas Smith. |
| 1:03.0 | That over there is real life attorney Matt Cameron. |
| 1:05.0 | How you doing, Matt? |
| 1:06.0 | Thomas, I'm really excited to talk to somebody whose work I have been following since I was at least 19, I think, when I read |
| 1:10.8 | Code, one of his first books. |
| 1:12.3 | Lawrence Lessig is so many different kinds of interesting, and he's had at least two very |
| 1:16.7 | incredible public advocacy careers. |
| 1:18.7 | So I'm excited to get to talk about a little of both there. |
| 1:20.6 | What's amazing about Professor Lessig is that there, and it's every time, he's been on the |
| 1:25.3 | show at least a handful of times. And every time it's like, |
| 1:28.1 | oh, we could talk about that. Oh, we could talk about that. Oh, we could talk about it. You know, |
| 1:30.6 | like, it's just endless. It's, and it's a lot of different things. And it's, and it's not as though |
| 1:35.7 | it's a casual, you know, like, oh, he's somewhat acquainted with this. No. It's an honor to have them on. I love talking to |
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