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Lawrence Lessig, The Buckley Overreach, in Fifty Years of Buckley v. Valeo (Geoffrey Stone & Lee Bollinger eds., forthcoming 2025).


Abstract: Under both the Court's current Buckley test and under any plausible version of originalism, contributions to independent political action committees are regulable. SuperPACs are, therefore, not constitutionally required - 14 years of mistaken lower court rulings not with standing.