Jacob Eisler

Jacob Eisler is the James Edmund and Margaret Elizabeth Hennessey Corry Professor at Florida State University College of Law. He received his JD from Harvard Law School and his PhD in Political Science from the Harvard University Department of Government. He is the author of The Law of Freedom: The Supreme Court and Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2023), and his scholarship is available here.

The Relevance of Citizens United After Trump-Style Populism

Fifteen years after Citizens United opened elections to corporate campaign financing, Jacob Eisler asks if the ruling remains relevant after Donald Trump won in 2016 and 2024 through small donations and social media savvy rather than traditional reliance on kingmaking donors.

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