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The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a case that could strike down restrictions on coordinated party election spending. Here's what to know: |
- A ruling could dismantle another key campaign finance restriction, further reshaping U.S. election spending rules.
- The case, National Republican Senatorial Committee v. FEC, involves Vice President JD Vance, who was running for the U.S. Senate in Ohio when the litigation began in 2022.
- Vance and two Republican Party committees have appealed a lower court's ruling upholding spending limits set by Congress in the 1970s.
- Republicans argue the limits infringe on free speech and party association rights while critics warn removing them would increase donor influence and corruption risks.
- The court has a history of striking down campaign finance laws on First Amendment grounds, including Citizens United (2010), McCutcheon (2014), and a 2022 decision favoring Senator Ted Cruz.
- Jan Wolfe has more here.
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- The D.C. Circuit will weigh the Trump administration's fast-track deportation policy. In August the lower court put on hold two policies that exposed millions of additional migrants to the risk of rapid expulsion. Read that ruling here. Last month the D.C. Circuit declined to stay that ruling while the government appeals. Read that decision here.
- The 4th Circuit will hear arguments over whether West Virginia violated the Fourteenth Amendment, the Medicaid Act and the ACA by declining to cover surgical treatments for gender dysphoria. The U.S. Supreme Court remanded the case back to the 4th Circuit for further consideration after its June decision upholding Tennessee's ban on youth transgender care.
- The 4th Circuit will also hear an appeal in a lawsuit challenging whether the U.S. Defense Department can ban HIV-positive people from joining the military. In August 2024, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that the ban was unlawful. Read that ruling here.
- U.S. District Judge P. Casey Pitts in San Jose will hear arguments in a class action challenging the Trump administration's policy of re-arresting and re-detaining immigrants the government previously determined were neither dangerous nor a flight risk. Read the motion.
- U.S. District Judge Darrin Gayles in Miami will hear The Wall Street Journal's President Trump's lawsuit alleging the media organization defamed him in a July article asserting his name was on a 2003 birthday greeting for the late financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
- The New Mexico Supreme Court will weigh whether incarcerated people have the right to acquire property under the "inherent" rights clause of the state's constitution. Read the state's brief here and the plaintiffs brief here.
- The Ohio Supreme Court will consider under what circumstances a taxpayer can sue to stop actions by local officials. Read the briefs here.
- Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell will urge a state judge to block Kalshi from operating its sports prediction platform in the state on the grounds that it constitutes an illegal sports wagering business.
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Court calendars are subject to last-minute docket changes. |
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