Our system of election financing permits extensive private, including corporate financing of candidate's campaigns, raising again and again the question of what the difference is between contributions and bribes and how legislators or other officials can operate objectively on behalf of the electorate.
Sotomayor discusses the influence of money in politics and its implications.
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