Fwd: [progressiveexchange] THURSDAY: Sen. Elizabeth Warren & Prof. Lawrence Lessig Discuss SCOTUS/Campaign Finance and more...

[Bruce Preville]

FYI.  Will be live streamed at 9-10am PT on Thurs.

Best,

Bruce
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Bruce Preville

San Jose CA Rootstrikers

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What we have now is the Conquest Game:  a zero sum, winner-take-all game where those who control money and assets get to define public policy and direct future wealth toward themselves.  We need a new societal game, the Cooperation Game, where success is measured by the increasing quality of life for all people.

The void created by smaller government is not often filled by liberty - David Rothkopf

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to every one who is striking at the root."  - Thoreau

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From: Karl Frisch <karlf...@gmail.com>

Subject: [progressiveexchange] THURSDAY: Sen. Elizabeth Warren & Prof. Lawrence Lessig Discuss SCOTUS/Campaign Finance and more...

Date: September 25, 2013 11:37:06 AM PDT

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Reply-To: Karl Frisch <karlf...@gmail.com>

Folks,

Wanted to make sure Progressive Exchangers saw this advisory concerning an event hosted by Constitutional Accountability Center tomorrow afternoon that features a conversation with Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Professor Lawrence Lessig on the upcoming Supreme Court case of McCutcheon v. FEC which many are calling a potential Citizens United 2.0. The event will be live streamed on YouTube and can be viewed here: http://theusconstitution.org/warren-lessig

Karl Frisch

The Founders v. The Roberts Court

Corruption, Campaign Finance, and McCutcheon v. FEC

Event Features U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren and Professor Lawrence Lessig

WASHINGTON, DC - On the second day of the U.S. Supreme Court's upcoming Term, the Justices will hear a major case involving the corrupting influence of money in our political system, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission.

Since the Supreme Court decided Citizens United v. FEC in 2010, Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, one of the nation's most respected academic voices on the First Amendment and campaign finance, has directed a massive research project to identify and code every mention of the word "corruption" in Founding-era documents and debates.  The results of this exhaustive research are striking.  While Mr. McCutcheon tries to build off suggestions by the Court in Citizens United that the government may only police money-for-votes forms of bribery, Lessig's research shows that the Founding generation had a much broader understanding of the federal government's power to root out corruption.

The Founders were intensely concerned with combatting what Lessig calls "improper dependence" or institutional corruption, in which public officials are dependent on special interests and their money rather than on, as James Madison wrote, "the people alone."   Lessig's research raises the question of whether the Court will follow the Founders in McCutcheon, or side with the conservative critics of campaign finance laws.  Constitutional Accountability Center has filed a Supreme Court brief on behalf of Professor Lessig in McCutcheon. 

Senator Elizabeth Warren, a former colleague of Professor Lessig's at Harvard Law School, has emerged as one of the most vocal and effective critics of Roberts Court rulings, such as Citizens United, which favor corporate interests over the rights and voices of ordinary Americans.   Senator Warren and Professor Lessig will lead a discussion about the stakes in theMcCutcheon case and the Court's increasingly aggressive rulings that are preventing Congress from combating the corrupting influence of money in our political system.

WHO: Senator Elizabeth Warren and Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig

WHAT: Opening remarks by Senator Warren, followed a presentation from Professor Lessig on corruption, campaign finance, and the Supreme Court case of McCutcheon v. FEC, concluding with Q&A for Professor Lessig and CAC President Doug Kendall

WHEN: 12:00 to 1:00 PM, Thursday, September 26, 2013

YouTube LIVE Stream - http://theusconstitution.org/warren-lessig

This event has been organized by Constitutional Accountability Center (www.theusconstitution.org), a think tank, public interest law firm, and action center dedicated to fulfilling the progressive promise of the Constitution's text and history.

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