A Maine lawsuit has suddenly become the most significant anti-corruption battle inside America\u2019s legal system<\/p>\n
Slush funds of anonymous unregulated money are now the dominant institutions in American politics, converting our elections into auctions \u2013 and transforming the legislative process into a donor bidding war.<\/p>\n
In the last election, Pacs and Super Pacs spent more money<\/a> to buy federal elections than all candidate campaigns combined. One in every $5<\/a> flowing through a Super Pac came from organizations that do not disclose their donors. In all, $2bn<\/a> of \u201cindependent\u201d spending was dark money, meaning the public cannot see who is buying elections \u2013 even though politicians know exactly who they owe once they are in office.<\/p>\n David Sirota is a Guardian US columnist and an award-winning investigative journalist. He is an editor at large at Jacobin, and the founder of the Lever<\/a>. He served as Bernie Sanders\u2019 presidential campaign speechwriter<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Maine lawsuit has suddenly become the most significant anti-corruption battle inside America\u2019s legal system Slush funds of anonymous unregulated money are now the dominant institutions in American politics, converting our elections into auctions \u2013 and transforming the legislative process into a donor bidding war. In the last election, Pacs and Super Pacs spent more … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}