Hillary Rodham Clinton will renew her focus this week on changing the country's weak campaign finance laws to limit the influence of big donors, even as her supporters exploit those weaknesses to raise millions of dollars for her election effort.
The Clinton campaign plans to release a video Tuesday that frames the candidate’s crusade against the dominance of corporate money in politics as personal. The two-minute production notes that the Supreme Court’s decision to allow corporations and unions to pour unlimited amounts into independent political committees came in a case involving her.
Citizens United, the conservative lobbying group at the center of the Supreme Court case, went to court to gain permission to pay for the broadcast of a movie attacking Clinton.