If ~Roe, then ~Buckley: Reaping what originalism has sown.

Almost exactly 20 years ago, a brilliant young social activist and technologist convinced me to give up my work on the Internet and copyright and to take up a fight against corruption. Aaron Swartz, who at the age of 13 helped craft RSS, and by the time he was persuading me, had co-founded Reddit and would go on to co-found at least two progressive reform organizations, asked me why I thought I could achieve the policy reform I sought “so long as we had this corrupt institution of Congress.” “It’s not my field, Aaron,” I told him. “You mean as an academic?” “Yes, as an academic,” I replied, “it’s not my field. I study copyright and internet policy.” “What about as a citizen?” he asked. “Is it your field as a citizen?”

He had trapped me. I had tenure. I could work on whatever I thought was important. And I knew he was right. That night, I resolved to give up on copyright and the internet. That summer, I announced the change. And for the last twenty years, I have done everything I could to push this issue to the center of America’s political imagination, writing books, starting at least three reform organizations focused on the issue, starting a SuperPAC to end SuperPACs, and trying to enter the 2016 Democratic primary for President focused exclusively on this issue.