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 ...
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 ...
This brief is very useful in setting out the statutory arguments against the USPS mail ballot rule, in much greater detail than appears in the district court’s TRO. From the brief’s introduction: This ...
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 ...
A U.S. Postal Service official has alleged that the agency is moving forward with a “secretive, rushed” effort to implement President Trump’s order exerting federal control over mail voting, despite a ...
As noted, the government is appealing the district court’s Thursday night grant of a temporary restraining order to the First Circuit, where the government will no doubt seek a stay. If the government ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The trial court in California v. Trump and LWV v. Trump issued a TRO last Thursday (August 27) preventing USPS from implementing key parts of its new rule on mail-in ballots. The next day, August 28, ...
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 ...