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Professor Richard Briffault is a professor at Columbia Law School in New York. The constitutional lawyer is considered in the US as a leading expert on impeachment.
But what exactly is “dark money,” and why is it considered a problem? As a law professor who studies campaign finance, I’d like to answer those questions and explain how improved disclosure laws could shed some light on dark money.