So he hasn’t officially declared his candidacy, but comedian Stephen Colbert is forming “an exploratory committee to lay the groundwork for [his] possible candidacy for the president of the United States of South Carolina,” so he’s covering all his bases by shedding ownership of his super PAC so he can still get in the race. In the wake of Colbert’s surprise polling ahead of actual-candidate Jon Huntsman on Tuesday, Thursday night’s episode of “The Colbert Report” saw the host legally transfer his super political action committee to friend and Comedy Central cohort Jon Stewart, and the two sealed the deal with Colbert’s lawyer (and former chairman of the Federal Election Commission) Trevor Potter present. This is just the latest in Colbert’s continuing satire of the 2010 Citizens United ruling, which allows Super PACs to be owned and operated by business colleagues close to candidates as long as the candidates are not “coordinating” with the PACs themselves. Colbert explained that he’ll still be able to talk about the PAC on his show, and he’ll even be able to volunteer with his former PAC under its new management. So as the host promised to not participate in strategy, planning or advertising with the newly-renamed “The Definitely Not Coordinating With Stephen Colbert Super PAC” — and as he joined hands with Stewart and Potter and the three yelled “Non-coordination!” in unison — it begged an interesting question: what is the Supreme Court’s definition of “coordination”?
