Last week, I argued my fifth case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

And as I prepared, I was surprised that I came across a conservative legal doctrine

that may just help us in the fight for free and fair elections.

In this episode, I'll walk through what I found, why I'm so excited about it,

and how we all need to be open to new ideas as we build a pro-democracy movement.

I promise you it's going to be a journey with some surprises and you won't want to miss this.

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All right, so every year, millions of cases get filed in the federal courts.

A few hundred thousand of them go to the court of appeals, and about seven thousand or so seek

review in the U.S. Supreme Court. But here's the thing, the Supreme Court, they get to choose

what cases they hear. And typically, they only decide to hear oral argument in 50 to 70 of them. And so I had the

opportunity to argue one of those cases. It was a campaign finance case in which the Republican

party is trying to undo, trying to strike down a limit on big money in politics that they have

tried and failed to strike down before.

I'm not going to bore you with all of the ins and outs, but suffice to say, it is a core pillar

of the campaign finance laws. And as I mentioned, it has been a project of the Republican Party

that goes all the way back to the late 1980s to strike down this particular provision.

They failed in the mid-90s when the Supreme Court first heard this.

They failed again in 2001 when the Supreme Court ruled specifically

that the provision in question was constitutional.

But here we are in 2025, and the Republican Party is back once again trying to strike it down. And so as I prepared

to argue this case in the Supreme Court, I had a lot to do. You know, you got to read all of the

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