You can read the filing at this link. This is highly unusual procedurally. Not only is the government not waiting on the First Circuit to rule on its stay request; it is not waiting for a (certainly ...

Justin here.  I’ve got a piece up in Lawfare on the Riverside search warrants for election materials now up before the California Supreme Court.  The piece starts off by explaining how much easier the ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday threatened to report NBC journalist Kristen Welker to the Federal Communications Commission for her reporting on the impact Trump’s endorsement has had on GOP ...

I have a slightly different approach to the remedy issue in California v. USPS than Rick H. does in a recent post, but I (think I) get to the same place. I have a little more sympathy for the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court kicked things off on Monday with a narrow procedural ruling that gave the Trump administration hopes it could move ahead with its plans for the November election. New rules ...

There are the big donors to American elections, and then there are the biggest donors — the ones that can turn around candidates’ fortunes and sometimes even write history. These are the billionaires ...

“You’re going to be totally f—ed next year or you’re going to figure it out this year and you’re going to make amends—and amends are going to be much more costly than they were previously.”– Cooper ...

At least six Arizona residents say three statewide candidates falsely used their names to qualify for more than $4.7 million in public campaign funding. “I can tell you right now, with 1,000% ...

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...

President Trump gathered his top political advisers in the Oval Office early this month to solve a problem of riches: how to spend his super PAC’s $400 million political war chest with fewer than 100 ...

Faux Campaign Finance Regulation and the Pathway to American Oligarchy (conference paper dated Apr. 24, 2025, draft available, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm ...