Marc Elias
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622 appearances
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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They tried to do it in 2001 and they failed again.
And now they did it and they succeeded.
And so the first reason why this is an important case is that just from a stare decisis standpoint, like just from the standpoint of precedent.
And we, you know, we used to do a lot of hearings in Congress when there were nominees in which they talk about precedent or precedent on precedent or super precedent.
Remember all these terms?
Like, to try to get at this idea that, like, these justices are not going to come in and just, like, willy-nilly change what prior courts had said.
And what's interesting about this case is that this was a case where the court had ruled on this question before.
And, you know, it goes back a long time, and it was more recent.
And the Supreme Court just sort of, like, drove through that as if it was just air.
Like, there was not, like, a lot of hand-wringing among the conservatives to try to figure out why it was
that a law that had been on the books since the 1970s that had been upheld in Buckley, had been upheld in the early, in the mid-90s, had been upheld in the early 2000s, all of a sudden now was not the case.
But the second is that it really undid a contribution limit, right?
This was the amount that parties could spend in full coordination with their candidates.
And that is a really big deal.
And so the question is like, what campaign finance law is this court going to uphold if it is not this one?
And so I do think it'll have
big jurisprudential effects.
And then on the politics of it, you can't help but ask yourself, you know, here we are this year and the Republicans wanted to be able to unwind the Voting Rights Act in time for 2026.
And this court, day after day after day, in a series of decisions, the Kalei decision being the most notable, but then its aftermath, allowed them to do that, redraw maps.
And they wanted to be able to spend more money at a time when their party has more money in the bank.
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