Citizens united (against Citizens United)

Larry Lessig has an interesting posting on the awful Citizens United Supreme Court decision.

He calls for two main actions:

1. In the short term: passage of the Fair Elections Now Act. See http://www.publicampaign.org/node/38166 for a description of this law that basically calls for citizen-funded elections (donations $100 or less)
2. In the longer term: a constitutional convention to pass an amendment to the constitution to protect the independence of congress from funders (see http://www.callaconvention.org/pages/call-for-a-convention/ for his reasoning and proposed amendment)

Lessig is a very interesting guy. Years ago I followed a great online class he and a couple of other lawyers ran on Cyberspace Law. I am not a lawyer (mandatory IANAL here :-), but the class was fascinating and accessible...check it out. It is a little old, but he covers the underlying principles, which I imagine can't have changed all that much. Many of the topics covered (copyright law, privacy law, free speech, etc. as they relate to cyberspace are still very hot topics.)