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OA1080 -\xa0As a weary nation watches the world's richest man try to buy a federal election in plain sight, we stop to consider the question which has so long plagued Elon Musk: There's gotta be a crime here, right? Somewhere?

There has been plenty of debate this week about the legality of Musk\u2019s $1 million daily lottery for registered US voters in swing states, but there is something far more insidious going\xa0on in this story beyond the headlines. Matt explains how the Federal Elections Commission has recently taken the Supreme Court\u2019s perfectly good joke way\xa0too far before we consider what the rapidly evolving rules around super PACs could mean for the future of fair elections in the United States.\xa0

Finally, we drop a seasonal footnote to discuss how some Massachusetts 8th graders recently helped to close out a 332-year-old criminal case.

• \u201cJudge Aileen Cannon, who tossed Trump's classified docs case, on list of proposed candidates for attorney general\u201d \xa0ABC News\xa0(10/22/2024)

• \u201cElon Musk\u2019s Big Business and Conflicts of Interest With the U.S. Government\u201d The New York Times\xa0(10/20/2024)

• \u201cA Democrat, Siding With the G.O.P., Is Removing Limits on Political Cash at \u2018Breathtaking\u2019 Speed,\u201d Shane Goldmacher \xa0The New York Times\xa0(6/10/2024)

• The Illusion of Independence: How Unregulated Coordination is Undermining Our Democracy, and What Can Be Done to Stop It, The Campaign Legal Center (11/30/2023)

• FEC Advisory Opinion 2024-01\xa0(3/20/2024)

• FEC Vice Chair Ellen Weintraub\u2019s dissent from Advisory Opinion 2024-07 (addressing Lindsay Graham campaign\u2019s question re: super PAC campaign fundraising coordination)

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