Happy Monday.

Welcome to another episode of the Chuck Toddcast, got a packed show, including a fascinating interview about somebody who thinks they're going to convince the Supreme Court not necessarily to overturn Citizens United, but to make Citizens United

essentially defunct. I'll let him explain. It's fascinating, and it is not, it is the equivalent

of Luke Skywalker blowing up the Death Star. It is a single shot in the smallest way, but it is not the craziest constitutional idea or path.

It involves essentially limiting how much an individual can give to a super PAC.

It is not touching the idea that in theory you can spend unlimited amount of money, but a super PAC will still have limitations and how much money it can raise from a single individual.

So I'm not going to get any more into that.

This is all being run by a Harvard law professor named Larry Lessig who helped successfully pass a ballot initiative in the state of Maine that is basically designed to get this

issue back in front of the Supreme Court. So it's a bit convoluted. I'm going to get into

redistricting later because this is the beginning of what I've been harping a lot about, right,

which is our problems in politics, yes, the two parties suck. We know that's, that's not news. But our bigger problems are structural, right? There are loopholes and exploitations that both parties have taken advantage of. And, you know, just like you would be uncomfortable driving over a bridge that were built 100 years ago without any updating. We should be uncomfortable in the democracy that we have today because we

really haven't updated in arguably 249 years. Well, that's not fully true. We direct election

of centers. It's been a good 100 years since we've taken it seriously to update democracy,

if you will, some of the rules and regulations. We made a quick effort after Watergate.

That has since almost completely been rolled back. Every Watergate reform may be dead.

So anyway, that's the interview. I'm going to get to it in a minute. I've got a lot to unpack, though.

We're at six months of Donald Trump. We've got the Epstein mess, which he can't, which Donald

Trump is trying in his attempts to distract from it. All he does is seem to entice more interest

in the story and stir up more journalism involving the story and involving his relationship

with him. We've got some new poll data to go through,

and I have a little bit on my little bit of sports page rantery

that I'll want to get off my chest as well.

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