Ben Wittes

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The Bulwark Daily · Ben Wittes: Talk About America in Decline · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

I believe they are currently working on scheduling oral argument, which will be sometime in September or October.

The other case, which is the very serious, not ginned up by, of course, Seashell's case in North Carolina, now has a briefing schedule.

The motions to dismiss are due, I believe, in June.

in August and the briefing will finish in September.

There's an arraignment.

And then presumably one of those motions will be the, are you fucking kidding me motion?

And another one will be the vindictive prosecution motion that would have prevailed in Virginia had the prosecutor is illegally appointed motion not prevailed.

And so I'm

There basically hasn't been a lot of movement in this case, these cases since the time of the seashells indictment.

You know, this is a new kind of motion and it includes, you know, the you maliciously tore up paint from the reflecting pool.

It includes the you 85 year old woman assaulted or the sandwich guy assaulted an ICE agent.

Right.

Or a CBP agent.

And I think it's it's the motion to dismiss because are you fucking kidding me?

A lot of these motions are prevailing.

So this is a series by my colleagues, Natalie Orpett and Lauren Voss and Molly Roberts.

And you have the psychology of the series exactly right, which is, hey, it's the political people's job to use this as a motivating factor to get people to vote and to get people serious about the idea of

protecting their right to vote and getting people energized.

It is our job to take it seriously as a rule of law matter.

And so we did, or my colleagues did, and they did a two-part series, the first part of which is about the actual legal impediments to deploying the military in connection with elections, which are extensive and turn out to involve Abe Lincoln-era statutes that

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