| 25-757 |
Matthew Borges v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
bribery campaign-finance first-amendment official-act political-contribution quid-pro-quo |
The First Amendment protects soliciting for, and contributing to, political campaigns based on policies that a candidate agrees to take while in offic… |
| 25-756 |
Larry Householder v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-12-29 |
Pending |
Response RequestedResponse Waived |
campaign-finance extortion first-amendment honest-services-fraud political-speech quid-pro-quo |
The First Amendment's protection of political speech
ensures that a political contribution will not constitute
extortion under 18 U.S.C. § 1951 or h… |
| 25-49 |
Alexander Sittenfeld aka P. G. Sittenfeld v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2025-07-15 |
Pending |
Amici (12)Relisted (5) |
bribery campaign-finance first-amendment official-act political-contribution quid-pro-quo |
The First Amendment protects soliciting and contributing funds to support a political candidate based on his or her intended policies. To avoid chilli… |
| 24-621 |
National Republican Senatorial Committee, et al. v. Federal Election Commission, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2024-12-06 |
Granted |
Amici (40)Relisted (2) |
campaign-finance constitutional-law first-amendment free-speech party-communication political-expenditure |
A political party exists to get its candidates elected. Yet Congress has severely restricted how much parties can spend on their own campaign advertis… |
| 24A494 |
Michael Quinn Sullivan v. Texas Ethics Commission |
Texas |
2024-11-19 |
Presumed Complete |
|
campaign-finance first-amendment free-speech-restriction government-compulsion political-speech registration-requirement |
Question not identified. |
| 24-503 |
Upstate Jobs Party, et al. v. Peter S. Kosinski, New York State Board of Elections Co-Chair Commissioner, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-11-04 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
campaign-finance contribution-limits first-amendment judicial-scrutiny political-speech quid-pro-quo |
When the government restricts political speech, to satisfy the First Amendment, the government must "point to record evidence or legislative findings … |
| 24A266 |
Upstate Jobs Party, et al. v. Peter Kosinski, New York State Board of Elections Co-Chair Commissioner, et al. |
Second Circuit |
2024-09-16 |
Presumed Complete |
|
campaign-finance contribution-limits equal-protection first-amendment political-speech quid-pro-quo-corruption |
Question not identified. |
| 24-5526 |
Terry Dean Birts v. Arkansas |
Arkansas |
2024-09-12 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
campaign-finance constitutional-rights donation-regulation first-amendment free-speech political-speech |
1) Did the Court of Appeals err in its decision dated May 2025 denying petitioner's petition for Writ of Certiorari under the strict construction?
2)… |
| 24A227 |
Treniss J. Evans v. Supreme Court of New York, et al. |
Fifth Circuit |
2024-08-30 |
Presumed Complete |
|
campaign-finance constitutional-interpretation election-law federal-preemption prosecutorial-discretion supremacy-clause |
Question not identified. |
| 23-1316 |
Doug Smith, et al. v. Richard Stillie, Jr., in His Official Capacity as Chair, Alaska Public Offices Commission, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-06-17 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (6) |
campaign-finance civil-rights compelled-speech disclosure-requirements first-amendment political-contributions |
1. Does Alaska's requirement that individual donors file duplicative reports of their political contributions within 24 hours of making them—on pain o… |
| 23-1266 |
Tonya Parks v. Affiliated Bank, et al. |
Texas |
2024-06-04 |
Denied |
|
campaign-finance constitutional-fairness due-process equal-protection fourteenth-amendment judicial-bias judicial-integrity judicial-misconduct judicial-recusal recusal |
I. Does the Texas judicial system's approach to
recusal, in conjunction with judges' collaborative
fundraising and expenditure activities, as viewed… |
| 23-1112 |
Ryan Cram, et al. v. Service Employees International Union Local 503, Oregon Public Employees Union, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-04-12 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
1st-amendment campaign-contributions campaign-finance civil-rights compelled-speech first-amendment free-speech labor-union labor-unions public-employees public-sector union-political-funds |
For nearly fifty years, this Court has held that public sector labor unions can fund political speech only through "charges, dues, or assessments paid… |
| 23-926 |
No on E, San Franciscans Opposing the Affordable Housing Production Act, et al. v. David Chiu, in His Official Capacity as San Francisco City Attorney, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2024-02-27 |
Denied |
Amici (8)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
advertising-regulation association campaign-finance compelled-speech disclosure-requirements donor-disclosure donor-transparency first-amendment free-speech political-speech |
1. Whether requiring political advertisers to
name their donors' donors within their
advertisements advances any important
or compelling state interes… |
| 23A511 |
No on E, San Franciscans Opposing the Affordable Care Housing Production Act, et al. v. David Chiu, in His Official Capacity as San Francisco City Attorney, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-12-05 |
Presumed Complete |
|
campaign-finance compelled-speech donor-disclosure first-amendment free-speech-doctrine political-advertising |
Question not identified. |
| 23A473 |
Jill L. Stein, et al. v. Federal Election Commission |
District of Columbia |
2023-11-27 |
Presumed Complete |
|
ballot-access campaign-finance equal-protection minor-party presidential-election public-funding |
Question not identified. |
| 22-865 |
Mobilize the Message, LLC, et al. v. Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California |
Ninth Circuit |
2023-03-10 |
Denied |
Amici (4) |
campaign-finance campaign-material civil-rights content-based-regulation content-based-restriction first-amendment free-speech independent-contractor independent-contractors political-canvassing political-speech speech-regulation |
Whether regulating canvassing and the delivery of printed material based on that speech's content, function, or purpose implicates the First Amendment… |
| 22-6115 |
Danny Fabricant v. Federal Election Commission, et al. |
District of Columbia |
2022-11-21 |
Dismissed |
Response WaivedIFP |
article-iii-standing campaign-finance constitutional-law constitutional-qualifications declaratory-judgment equal-protection federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission prisoner-litigation standing statutory-interpretation |
1. Does 52 U.S.C. § 30101's REQUIREMENT, that potential candidates for the House of Representatives report (either) the receipt of more that $5,000 in… |
| 21-943 |
Gerald G. Lundergan v. United States |
Sixth Circuit |
2021-12-27 |
Denied |
|
campaign-finance civil-rights constitutional-law corporate-contributions family-corporation federal-ban first-amendment free-speech scrutiny-standard |
Whether the federal ban on corporate contributions is unconstitutional as applied to intrafamilial contributions from a closely held, family-run corpo… |
| 21-890 |
Gaspee Project, et al. v. Diane C. Mederos, et al. |
First Circuit |
2021-12-15 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
campaign-finance commercial-speech compelled-speech constitutional-law disclosure-requirements donor-disclosure first-amendment free-speech issue-advocacy strict-scrutiny |
Rhode Island law requires most issue advocacy groups that mention a candidate or referendum in a communication before an election to register with the… |
| 21-822 |
Donna Patrick, et al. v. The Alaska Public Offices Commission |
Alaska |
2021-12-03 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
campaign-finance certiorari constitutional-interpretation first-amendment free-speech independent-committees institutional-corruption originalism political-contributions standing |
Petitioners are Alaskan citizens who challenged the Alaska Public Offices Commission's ("APOC's") refusal to enforce Alaskan law regulating contributi… |
| 20-103 |
Stephen E. Stockman v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2020-08-03 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response Waived |
bipartisan-campaign-reform-act buckley-standard buckley-v-valeo campaign-finance electioneering-communications feca-enforcement federal-election-campaign-act first-amendment fraud-claims mcconnell-v-fec |
1. Whether Buckley's narrowing construction applies to non-BCRA activity (i.e., non-electioneering communications) in FECA enforcement actions.
2. Wh… |
| 20-5096 |
In Re Shavez Evans |
|
2020-07-16 |
Denied |
IFP |
42-usc-1983 campaign-finance civil-rights constitutional-law declaratory-judgment due-process equal-protection first-amendment judicial-elections judicial-immunity state-court |
1) he Distic Cor Aiona n the ptner Evn uce ual when abusing their discretion ruling Judges are absolutely immone. from S 1983 suits for damages when t… |
| 19-1398 |
Ted Lieu, United States Congressman, et al. v. Federal Election Commission |
District of Columbia |
2020-06-22 |
Denied |
Amici (6) |
campaign-finance corruption corruption-prevention federal-election-campaign-act first-amendment independent-expenditures political-committees political-contributions standing statutory-limit |
Whether the federal statutory limit on
contributions to political committees, 52 U.S.C.
§ 30116(a)(1)(C), comports with the First Amendment
as applied… |
| 19-767 |
National Association for Gun Rights, Inc. v. Jeff Mangan, in His Official Capacity as the Commissioner of Political Practices for the State of Montana, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-12-16 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
campaign-finance circuit-split civil-rights constitutional-rights express-advocacy first-amendment free-speech political-committee political-committee-regulations |
Whether the First Amendment permits imposing burdensome political-committee regulations upon groups that do not engage in any express advocacy for or … |
| 19-608 |
Mark Elster, et al. v. City of Seattle, Washington |
Washington |
2019-11-12 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
campaign-finance civil-rights compelled-subsidy constitutional-review first-amendment free-speech property-levy rational-basis speech-funding standing |
Seattle's "democracy voucher" program establishes a dedicated property levy used solely to fund individual contributions from Seattle residents to the… |
| 19-458 |
John Schickel, et al. v. George C. Troutman, et al. |
Sixth Circuit |
2019-10-07 |
Denied |
|
campaign-finance campaign-speech civil-rights due-process first-amendment fourteenth-amendment free-speech legislative-ethics standing strict-scrutiny |
1. Whether incumbents and candidates for political office have standing to assert First and Fourteenth Amendment claims regarding: i) pure campaign sp… |
| 19-234 |
Libertarian National Committee, Inc. v. Federal Election Commission |
District of Columbia |
2019-08-22 |
Denied |
Amici (3) |
campaign-finance content-based-restrictions deceased-donor federal-election-commission first-amendment first-amendment-rights free-speech political-contributions political-parties testamentary-bequest testamentary-bequests |
1. In the asserted interest of preventing quid pro quo corruption, the Federal Election Commission limits the amount of money that a political party m… |
| 19-122 |
David Thompson, et al. v. Heather Hebdon, Executive Director of the Alaska Public Offices Commission, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2019-07-25 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Relisted (4) |
campaign-finance contribution-limits electoral-law first-amendment ninth-circuit procedural-history randall-v-sorrell regulatory-background standing supreme-court-precedent |
Whether Alaska's $500 individual-to-candidate and individual-to-group contribution limits violate the First Amendment. |
| 18-9001 |
Steven P. Reed v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-26 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
campaign-finance due-process fair-notice federal-power federal-prosecution mcdonnell-v-united-states money-laundering state-campaign-finance-law state-regulation wire-fraud |
In Louisiana, the only body of law regulating state campaign finance expenditures (a) a political campaign The holding of a public office is vaguely d… |
| 18-1336 |
Walter P. Reed v. United States |
Fifth Circuit |
2019-04-24 |
Denied |
Response Waived |
campaign-finance criminal-forfeiture criminal-forfeiture,statute-of-limitations,mail-fr criminal-prosecution custom-and-practice custom-and-practice,federal-mail-fraud,state-law,s due-process federal-law mail-fraud notice state-law statute-of-limitations statutory-interpretation wire-fraud |
1. Whether Petitioner was denied due process by the "lack of notice" of (1) the federal prosecutors' hindsight interpretation of the phrase "unrelated… |
| 18-1293 |
Evergreen Freedom Foundation, dba Freedom Foundation v. Washington |
Washington |
2019-04-12 |
Denied |
Amici (5)Response WaivedRelisted (2) |
ballot-initiative ballot-initiatives campaign-finance constitutional-vagueness due-process fair-campaign-practices-act first-amendment free-speech vagueness vagueness-doctrine |
Petitioner presents two issues for review:
1. Do Washington campaign finance statutes Wash. Rev. Code §§ 42.17A.255 and 42.17A.005 violate Due Proces… |
| 18-896 |
Missouri Ethics Commission, et al. v. Free and Fair Election Fund, et al. |
Eighth Circuit |
2019-01-10 |
Denied |
Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
campaign-finance constitutional-law contribution-caps corruption first-amendment free-speech political-action-committee political-action-committees state-regulation transparency |
Under the First Amendment, may a state prohibit political action committees from transferring money to other political action committees? |
| 18-755 |
Illinois Liberty PAC, et al. v. Kwame Raoul, Attorney General of Illinois, et al. |
Seventh Circuit |
2018-12-13 |
Denied |
Amici (3)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
buckley-standard buckley-v-valeo campaign-finance civil-rights contribution-limits due-process equal-protection first-amendment political-contributions political-speech strict-scrutiny |
1. Should political contribution limits that favor one type of speaker over another receive strict scrutiny?
2. Should the holding in Buckley v. Vale… |
| 18-733 |
1A Auto, Inc., et al. v. Michael Sullivan, Director, Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance |
Massachusetts |
2018-12-10 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedRelisted (2) |
association campaign-finance contribution-limits equal-protection first-amendment free-speech freedom-of-association freedom-of-speech intermediate-scrutiny political-contributions strict-scrutiny |
1. Should Beaumont be overruled because it conflicts with more recent decisions of this Court and insufficiently protects freedom of speech and associ… |
| 18-606 |
Dimitrios N. Kesari, aka Dimitri Kesari v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-11-08 |
Denied |
|
campaign-finance criminal-law disbursement-disclosure disclosure-requirements false-reporting federal-election-campaign-act federal-election-commission purpose-statements reporting-requirements |
The Federal Election Campaign Act ("FECA") requires that candidates for federal elected office report certain disbursements to the Federal Election Co… |
| 18-442 |
Jesse R. Benton v. United States |
Eighth Circuit |
2018-10-09 |
Denied |
|
18-usc-1001 campaign-finance false-statement falsity fec feca federal-election-commission materiality materiality-requirement reporting-violations sarbanes-oxley sarbanes-oxley-act statutory-interpretation |
1. WHETHER THE MATERIALITY REQUIREMENT IN 18 USC SECTION 1001 CAN BE TURNED INTO A MERE FALSITY REQUIREMENT IN THE FEC REPORTING CONTEXT OR WHETHER TH… |
| 18-377 |
Montanans for Community Development v. Jeffrey A. Mangan, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-09-24 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) |
buckley-test buckley-v-valeo campaign-finance circuit-split citizens-united-v-fec entity-based-burdens first-amendment first-amendment-free-speech free-speech major-purpose ninth-circuit-split nonprecedential-decisions political-committee political-committees |
1. Whether states are barred by the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution from imposing PAC-status, with its resulting entity-based burdens, on gro… |
| 18-5766 |
Jian-yun Dong, aka John Dong v. United States |
Fourth Circuit |
2018-08-24 |
Denied |
Response WaivedIFP |
appellate-court-standard campaign-contribution campaign-contribution-violation campaign-finance civilian-affairs civilian-law-enforcement domestic-security-act jurisdiction-removal military-jurisdiction posse-comitatus-act prosecutorial-misconduct third-amendment |
Briefly, an Agent of Defense Criminal Investigation Service of the Inspector General's Office of the Department of Defense obtained the search and sei… |
| 18-149 |
Doug Lair, et al. v. Jeff Mangan, in His Official Capacity as Commissioner of Political Practices, et al. |
Ninth Circuit |
2018-08-02 |
Denied |
Amici (4)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (3) |
campaign-finance campaign-finance-regulation civil-rights constitutional-rights contribution-limits election-law first-amendment free-speech political-contributions political-parties political-speech quid-pro-quo-corruption randall-v-sorrell standing |
1. Whether Montana's base candidate contribution limits on individual and political committees are unconstitutional under the First Amendment.
2. Whe… |
| 18-93 |
Donald Zimmerman v. City of Austin, Texas |
Fifth Circuit |
2018-07-20 |
Denied |
Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (7) |
aggregate-limit austin base-limit campaign-contributions campaign-finance civil-rights constitutional-law contribution-limits due-process election-law first-amendment standing |
Whether Austin's $350 base limit on campaign contributions violates the First Amendment; and
Whether Zimmerman established standing to challenge Aust… |