Maryland Democrat Rep. Chris Van Hollen played a bait-and-switch in a speech this week, invoking Republican support for candidate disclosure to argue that they should also support his efforts to force disclosure of donors to nonprofit groups.

Van Hollen accused some skeptics of his DISCLOSE Act (better understood as “Democratic Incumbents Seeking to Contain Losses by Outlawing Speech in Elections Act”) of going back on the principles they once stood for. In reality, he and other advocates of disclosure have moved the goalposts.