News Summary

• Campaign finance reformers think they’ve found a solution to America’s campaign finance fiasco.
• A newly enacted corporate law, SB 2471, changes the powers that corporations, or other artificial persons like nonprofits, are granted by the state of Hawaii.
• In the United States, states grant artificial persons powers as part of an agreement that allows those artificial persons to operate in the state.
• Tom Moore, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, said the law operates upstream of Citizens United by dealing with the powers granted to corporations.