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So there's no need to ban super PACs, just a need to enforce the existing rules? Sounds more workable than a state constitutional initiative that directly contr

• dragonwriter 2y ago
  The problem is that the current enforcement by an "independent" (bipartisan, and in this case balanced) commission enables partisans of either party to block enforcement, traditional executive enforcement would raise the possibility of enforcement becoming (if nothing else, by negative action) biased for the current executive. Maybe you could open up private litigation to enforce it, which reduces the bias problem to the bias of the courts and the usual problems of bias for resources to litigate, which might seem the minimally dysfunctional approach if it wasn't for the Supreme Court being in the middle of a brazen corruption crisis of its own. This is an area which has a very big quis custodiet ipsos custodes problem, "just enforce the rules" as a solution kind of just skips over the fundamental challenge.