we've never had a perfect democracy but in the advent of the sage like citizens united and mccutcheon, recent supreme court jurisprudence is made all the more difficult for folks to equal voice and a vote in our democracy. so we are very lucky to be joined a dream team of young la linea up and comers in the democracy space. on the far left is brendan fischer. next to him is dreadful, director of the youth engagement fund for the democracy alliance. and right next to me is allie boldt, counsel at demos. so a couple things programming wise to start off on, acs has a couple events coming up next month. were getting attorneys in the area were able to volunteer their time on election day, or a couple days preceding to do something called election protection were called election protection forward megaphones and try to answer questions folks around the country and collaboration on election day to make sure buddies vote is counted the we also have an event on the 17th of november, a voting rights training. there's an organization that is part campaign legal center, part american constitution

their assumptions in that case and in cases like mccutcheon were entirely off base, and similarly to the degree to which the justices are unrepresentative of the country as a whole, there's going to be a lack of recognition about how their decisions impact the country as a whole. so i think the two are very much interrelated. anybody else? leave it at that. >> enough said. okay, folks. this is a product of the american constitution society, d.c. lawyer chapter. thank you all for coming out. could we have our board members put your hands up if you're in the room? folks these are chapter ambassadors. find them, engage them, buy them a drink at the bar. but thank all of you for coming and being here with us. thank you to gw for the space, thank you to c-span for providing coverage of it. you are all now free to sob quietly in your presidents while watching the presidential debate. [laughter] thanks to our panel. [applause] >> if you guys didn't get food, there's plenty left in the room right over there. [inaudible conversations] >> this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, saturda

justice breyer in his dissent to mccutcheon explained how campaign finance laws can actually further first amendment interest, can further people's -- the public's interest in self-government and getting the court to expand on that and recognize that first amendment -- that campaign finance restrictions can advance first amendment values, move us beyond this balancing test where any campaign finance law is just balanced against the supposed infringement on first amendment rights. and the legal strategy is also distinct from the school desegregation legal strategy, for example, we are not challenging existing laws, we are not trying to not down desegregation laws, we're really trying to defend -- defend good laws. so any successful case will probably result from a challenge to an existing law and any existing law is more likely to be upheld if it's narrowly tailored to a localized record of localized record of corruption. so those are the general prips that we are looking at and thinking of moving forward as we anticipate the court's jurisprudence changing with this new justice, but,