Jonathan Scruggs

So you could see a split in the immigration decisions.

Yeah, two cases there, Republican National Committee versus Watson.

That involves the issue of what is the meaning of election day and whether you can count ballots that were postmarked before election day or did they have to be received on election day.

After COVID, certain states started to allow

people to send in ballots and started to count them even if they were received after election day.

And so what I anticipate here is siding against the states in this situation and the court effectively saying, look, the meaning of election day means you have to receive the ballots on that day.

You can't receive them after.

So in favor of, I guess you could say, election integrity on that issue.

On the other case, which is a First Amendment case,

which is Republican National Committee versus FEC, that involves a federal law that puts a limit on how much political parties can coordinate and spend with a political candidate.

Republican groups challenge that law.

And interesting enough, because it's a federal law, the Trump administration said, we can't defend this law because it's unconstitutional.

So then the Democratic Party jumped in to try to defend the law.

And I would anticipate a winner for the challengers in that case, the group of Republicans.

The Supreme Court has been pretty skeptical of limits of campaign finance that burden the First Amendment.

So I would anticipate a win for the First Amendment on that case and the challengers.

Thanks for having me.