How the Plaintiffs Bar Bought the Senate – The Wall Street Journal
Onerous campaign finance laws have long served to hamper the business world’s influence on political elections while, at the same time, providing a huge advantage for trial attorneys. In a recent Wall Street Journal Opinion piece James Copland explains that Corporations' interests have traditionally been dispersed among “a host of competing tax and regulatory concerns,” meaning that each individual company or industry has its own agenda when backing a political candidate. The result is this: achieving substantial aggregate sums of financial backing for a single issue has been a near impossibility. Read More »
