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Ciara Torres-Spelliscy JD

Ciara Torres-Spelliscy is a Brennan Center fellow and a professor of law at Stetson University College of Law. She is the author of Safeguarding Markets from Pernicious Pay to Play: A Model Explaining Why the SEC Regulates Money in Politics. Prior to joining Stetson’s faculty, she was counsel in the democracy program of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University’s School of Law. She was an associate at Arnold & Porter LLP and a staffer for Sen. Richard Durbin. Get the news you want, delivered to your inbox every day. Truthout must raise $25,000 for our basic publishing costs this month. We are appealing to our readers to make a one-time or monthly donation. Donate now if you can!

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17 Things We Learned about Money in Politics in 2018

By Ciara Torres-Spelliscy JD Guest Commentator

Big money still runs the show. Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. First a confession. I did not write a “16 Things We Learned about Money in Politics in 2016.” It was a strange post-election period and I just couldn’t put pen to paper.…

Big money still runs the show. Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. First a confession.…

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