The Center for American Progress, a group aligned with Democrats, unveiled a policy blueprint Monday that it says aims to shut the “floodgates” of corporate money in politics that opened after the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.
The blueprint, which is more than 40 pages long, outlines a strategy that hinges on states changing the way they define corporations to no longer grant them the power to spend in elections, according to CAP’s report and an interview with its lead author, Tom Moore, a one-time chief of staff to former Federal Election Commission Chair Ellen Weintraub.
It’s a novel, if ...