{"id":17,"date":"2012-02-06T23:36:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T23:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/?p=17"},"modified":"2012-02-06T23:46:13","modified_gmt":"2012-02-06T23:46:13","slug":"lawrence-lessig-on-obamas-role-in-congressional-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/lawrence-lessig-on-obamas-role-in-congressional-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Lawrence Lessig on Obama&#8217;s Role in Congressional Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>An opinion piece by HLS Professor\u00a0<strong>Lawrence Lessig<\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: #505050;font-family: Arial;font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px;text-align: left;background-color: #ffffff\">: \u2026 [Congress], the core of our democracy, is politically bankrupt. And it was therefore appropriate, indeed, essential, that the president make its reform the catalyst for any real \u201cchange.\u201d If this indeed was to be \u201cchange you could believe in,\u201d changing Congress had to be part of the plan. \u2026 Yet three years into this administration, we have yet to see the plan. In Obama\u2019s first year as president, reform of Congress was nowhere on his agenda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/2012\/02\/05\/the_tyranny_of_tiny_minds_and_big_money\/singleton\/?utm_source=News%40Law+subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=e63823748f-News_Law_Monday_Feb_6_20122_6_2012&amp;utm_medium=email\">The tyranny of tiny minds and big money &#8211; Salon.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An opinion piece by HLS Professor\u00a0Lawrence Lessig: \u2026 [Congress], the core of our democracy, is politically bankrupt. And it was therefore appropriate, indeed, essential, that the president make its reform the catalyst for any real \u201cchange.\u201d If this indeed was to be \u201cchange you could believe in,\u201d changing Congress had to be part of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2670,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61271],"tags":[14687,1225,3917,4575],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-at-law","tag-citizens-united","tag-editorial","tag-lawrence-lessig","tag-president-obama","p1","y2012","m02","d06","h19"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2670"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/readinglist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}