Corporate Law Advances as Dark Money Antidote: Delaware Brief

Hawaii, Montana Advance Dark Money Fight

The flood of TV spots and pop-up ads threatening to drown DC last month under Virginia’s special election messaging offered a frustrating reminder that this year’s midterm elections will bring a plague of ominous voiceovers, many funded by opaque entities with Orwellian names and secret donor lists.

I reported in March that organizers in Montana were pushing a novel strategy, based on an untested theory of corporate law, to cripple the dark money machine making every football broadcast unwatchable. They’ve now been joined by lawmakers in Hawaii, who last week sent its ...