Our Government is Broken. What Can We Do to Fix It?
"A republic, IF you can keep it" -Ben Franklin
We Can Break Partisan Gridlock by Achieving Three Goals
40% of Americans still don’t believe the results of the last Presidential election. For democracy to work we need people to vote and to believe in the election outcome.
Through gerrymandering and other partisan practices, only 10% of Congressional elections are competitive. That’s no way to make politicians compete for votes.
Legislative practices, outdated election laws and the growing importance of big money, make our government too much of an inside game.
Reform Elections Now (REN) is a non-partisan group of law and business school graduates looking for ways to eliminate the government paralysis which is threatening the health of our democracy and making the United States uncompetitive.
REN Event Announcement
Citizens United Neutered?
Tuesday, June 9th 5:30pm (EST)
Since Citizens United, corporate money has taken over our political campaigns. Between 1988 and 2020, expenditures on Presidential elections increased 965%. (Federal Elections Commission) These totals do not include an estimated more than $1 billion in dark money spent in 2020.
Many Americans curse the impact of all this money, but most have given up the hope of change because they know the Supreme Court will not overturn Citizens United.
While the Supreme Court may not act, Tom Moore, of the Center for American Progress has come up with an ingenious workaround that could make Citizens United irrelevant and effectively eliminate corporate donations to political campaigns.
Please join us for a breakthrough discussion of the Corporate Power Reset and the Montana Plan and learn how Citizens United could become irrelevant and how we could limit corporate expenditures in our political process.
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Featured Event Vignettes
Larry Diamond, Senior Fellow at Stanford University
Peter Siris, Research Director at Reform Elections Now
On unlike my prediction in 2020, this prediction should never come to pass
Richard Pildes, Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU
On 3 ways how to avoid a constitutional crisis in 2024
Edward B. Foley, Professor of Election &Constitutional Law at School of Law, The Ohio State University
On why the outdated Electoral Count Act needs to be urgently updated (which it ultimately was on Dec ’22 with guidance from Foley’s group and REN)