He said he'd run if he raised $1m: he just did.
- Lessig would use that mandate to get Congress to pass the Citizens Equality Act of 2017.
Once this package is passed, Larry Lessig would step down, and the vice president would become president.
Details of his voting reform bill here.
Frankly, yes. He thinks it would be easier for an ordinary president to get laws passed by Congress and the Senate, changing the illegitimate voting system which keeps every single congressman and senator in power? I think everyone agrees allies are good. But how could anyone possibly gain allies willing to pass laws resulting in their own, as well as their entire party's, political death? If you want to argue that what Lessig is trying to accomplish is impossible, sure, there's good reason to believe that. But Pacific Standard argues it could be better accomplished differently, which, to me, seems even less possible.Lessig asks: "If you assume it would be hard for me, do you assume it would be easier for an ordinary president?"
Yea I disagreed with that comment as well. The secret to this issue is that it is nearly impossible for the presidency as a branch of the government to pass this law. Who the president is doesn't really matter. Legislative power mainly lies in the congress, and with that gives them a lot of power. The only way I could see meaningful change in campaign finance is if another political party somehow gained a foot hole in the US congress.
Is he just expecting to walk into the capital and get this bill passed? Of course not. A bill like this is going to take a massive amount of manpower both on the presidents side and the peoples side. Now that is fine and all, but what happens when being the President of the United States gets in the way of that plan? I have no clue how he plans to handle the numerous other issues that plague the US while also trying to pass the largest and most dangerous (to corporate elites) bill in recent history. He made some comments about Bernie Sanders being sucked into the campaign craft making promises that he won't be able to keep if he becomes president, but the issue of voter/campaign reform is an extremely difficult issue. To me he makes it seem that he is just going to walk in get this done really quick, and then step down. I don't imagine him being able to complete what he intends to in his first term, so not having a complete picture of where he stands on other issues worries me.