Late last month, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley introduced a bill that signals that a critical break may be coming in the fever of campaign finance jurisprudence. The Ending Corporate Influence on Elections Act of 2023 purports to limit political spending by publicly traded corporations in America. The bill has exactly zero chance of becoming law. Yet the constitutional premise Hawley has embraced could change campaign finance law fundamentally.
Late last month, Republican Sen. Josh Hawley introduced a bill that signals that a critical break may be coming in the fever of campaign finance jurisprudence. The Ending Corporate Influence on Elections Act of 2023 purports to limit political spending by publicly traded corporations in America. The bill has exactly zero chance of becoming law. Yet the constitutional premise Hawley has embraced could change campaign finance law fundamentally.
Hawley is motivated, he says, by the theory of constitutional interpretation named “originalism.” Originalism says that the Constitution should be interpreted according to the original meaning of the words in that document. In Hawley’s view, nothing in the words of the First Amendment, as originally interpreted, would limit legislatures from directing how corporate money can or cannot be spent. Nothing, therefore, in that amendment should limit legislatures from so directing today. Hawley is certainly right about the original meaning of the First Amendmen
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