Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself.

Mr. Chief Justice, may it place the court.

This is Hans von Spikovsky, and this is Case in Point.

Our title of day is the midterm elections hurrah, which is a wordplay on today's classic

movie review, which I'll get to at the end of the case and point.

As all of you know, we just had an odd year election in the few states like Virginia and New Jersey,

whose statewide elections do not coincide with federal elections, which are held in even years.

I'm sorry, even years.

But we are fast approaching the end of 2025. And in January, not only will state

legislators kick off their legislative sessions in many parts of the country, but also the election

campaign season will launch for the midterm elections. And political parties, candidates, political action committees are all going to start spending

money to convince you the voters to vote for them and to put them into office.

Now there's currently a case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court that may have an effect on federal elections,

which are going to be in November and may decide who controls Congress.

It's called National Republican Senatorial Committee versus Federal Election Commission.

Here to talk about it today is my longtime friend and colleague, Alan Dickerson.

Alan is a former commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, where I also served for two years,

recently left the commission to join Baker Hostedler in the law firm's Washington, D.C. office.

Prior to serving on the F.C., he was the legal director of the Institute for Free Speech,

a great organization that works to protect the right of Americans to speak politically

and also to take action politically.

He got his undergraduate degree from Yale, his law degree from New York

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