Last night Campaign Legal Center President Trevor Potter appeared again on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” as host Stephen Colbert’s “personal lawyer” in a continuing discussion of the Colbert Super PAC's legal issues. The segment illustrates the absurdities of the nation’s campaign finance laws. As Colbert weighs a run for “President of the United States of South Carolina”, Potter hands him the papers to transfer control of his Super PAC to fellow Comedy Central host Jon Stewart.

On December 2, 2011, Campaign Legal Center President Trevor Potter addressed the current state of affairs of  our federal campaign finance system in a speech in Austin before the Professional Advocacy Association of Texas.  The remarks recount the series of actions that brought us to where we are today and chart a path toward a remedy for a system veering toward election-by-auction. 

Last week, Campaign Legal Center President Trevor Potter sat down with Ross Ramsey of The Texas Tribune to discuss the state of play in campaign finance.  Potter describes system “in huge flux” that bears almost no resemblance to the system of full disclosure imagined by Justice Kennedy in his majority opinion in Citizens United v. FEC.

Polls place public approval of Congress at near 10% - an all-time low - and President Obama's at about 41%, well below the average since Franklin Roosevelt. Should Americans be concerned?