Article:

Spencer Overton, But Some Are More Equal: Race, Exclusion, and Campaign Finance, 80 TEXAS L. REV. 987 (2002).

Abstract:

In But Some Are More Equal, Professor Overton claims that those calling for campaign finance reform—“Reformers”—have overlooked the significance of race, and thus their proposals are incomplete.  Overton notes that other facially race-neutral procedures (electoral districts, poll taxes, literacy tests) have been analyzed, and found to have excluded minorities from the political process.  Campaign finance reform potentially carries a similar effect, and in using race as an analytical tool, Professor Overton exposes the shortcomings of current campaign finance jurisprudence, and calls for a more sophisticated policy analysis of future legislative proposals.