Buying Votes




Hammer Museum show

Summary: 3/15/12---As well-heeled candidates with Super PACs overwhelm their rivals, we look for an alternative to money-driven elections and explore ways for candidates and issues to be presented fairly and openly. Joining us is Lawrence Lessig, the director of the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University and a professor of Law at Harvard Law School. Lessig clerked for Justice Antonin Scalia on the United States Supreme Court. He is the author of Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress---and a Plan to Stop It. (Run time: 1 hour, 31 min.)