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Show Me The Money-P2-Trevor Potter-ISPS Special Event How Transparency in Political Donations Could Change American Elections Visit ISPS: https://isps.yale.edu/ The Scholars Stategy Network; https://scholars.org/ Yale University: https://youtu.be/9PHL4kMH1no Trevor Potter is a lawyer, former commissioner and chairman of the United States Federal Election Commission. He is the Founder and President of the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit organization which works in the areas of campaign finance and elections, political communication and government ethics. A Republican, he was the General Counsel to John McCain's two presidential campaigns. Potter is a vocal critic of unlimited corporate spending and dark money in politics allowed by the Citizens United v. FEC ruling Under current judicial interpretation, the government has very little wiggle room to curb the spending of money for electioneering. Spending money to influence elections is interpreted as integral to first amendment rights. However, the Su