"Citizens United v. Federal Elections Commission - Podcast"

Steve Simpson of the Institute for Justice and I recently recorded this 50-minute podcast for the Federalist Society debating the Citizens United case. Eugene Volokh of UCLA moderated the discussion.

I very much enjoyed this discussion, and I hope listeners will as well. I will let readers judge the debate for themselves, but from my own point of view, I found the discussion at the very end of the podcast the most illuminating part. In this part, I asked Steve about the possibility that there could be real corruption of politicians if the Supreme Court ultimately accepted his views about the unconstitutionality of contribution limitations and other limitations. I was both pleased by his candor and troubled by the merits of his position. Others no doubt will cheer what he had to say.

Posted by Rick Hasen at April 28, 2010 08:38 PM