How the Conservative Legal Movement Gave First Amendment Rights to Corporations—and Why It Matters Now

Ann Southworth, Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign to Deregulate Election Spending (2023).

Scott Cummings

Ann Southworth is a pioneering scholar of the conservative legal movement. Her 2008 book, Lawyers of the Right: Professionalizing the Conservative Coalition, offered path-breaking insights into the evolution of the movement, charting its origins, features, and fractures. Her new book, Big Money Unleashed: The Campaign to Deregulate Election Spending, is a worthy—and timely—successor that explores one facet of what the movement has achieved. In it, Southworth examines […]